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Make a level highway in the desert for our God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The glory of Yahweh shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it."</p> <a name="6" id="6"></a><p class="hdg">The Word of the Lord Stands Forever<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../1_peter/1.htm#22">1 Peter 1:22-25</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>The voice of one saying, "Cry!" One said, "What shall I cry?" "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh's breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever."</p> <p class="hdg">Here is Your God!</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don't be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold, your God!"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or has taught him as his counselor?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up an engraved image for him that will not be moved.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Haven't you known? Haven't you heard, yet? Haven't you been told from the beginning? Haven't you understood from the foundations of the earth?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth like meaningless.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>"To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?" says the Holy One.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, Not one is lacking.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, "My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God?"</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, The Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn't faint. He isn't weary. His understanding is unsearchable.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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