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id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/39.htm" title="Isaiah 39">◄</a> Isaiah 40 <a href="../isaiah/41.htm" title="Isaiah 41">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Comfort ye, comfort ye My people,</div><div class="po2">Saith your God.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Bid Jerusalem take heart,</div><div class="po2">And proclaim unto her,</div><div class="po2">That her time of service is accomplished,</div><div class="po2">That her guilt is paid off;</div><div class="po2">That she hath received of the LORD’S hand</div><div class="po2">Double for all her sins.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Hark! one calleth:</div><div class="po2">‘Clear ye in the wilderness the way of the LORD,</div><div class="po2">Make plain in the desert</div><div class="po2">A highway for our God.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Every valley shall be lifted up,</div><div class="po2">And every mountain and hill shall be made low;</div><div class="po2">And the rugged shall be made level,</div><div class="po2">And the rough places a plain;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed,</div><div class="po2">And all flesh shall see it together;</div><div class="po2">For the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Hark! one saith: ‘Proclaim!’</div><div class="po2">And he saith: ‘What shall I proclaim?’</div><div class="po2">‘All flesh is grass,</div><div class="po2">And all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;</div><div class="po2">Because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it—</div><div class="po2">Surely the people is grass.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass withereth, the flower fadeth;</div><div class="po2">But the word of our God shall stand for ever.’</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,</div><div class="po2">Get thee up into the high mountain;</div><div class="po2">O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem,</div><div class="po2">Lift up thy voice with strength;</div><div class="po2">Lift it up, be not afraid;</div><div class="po2">Say unto the cities of Judah:</div><div class="po2">‘Behold your God!’</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a Mighty One,</div><div class="po2">And His arm will rule for Him;</div><div class="po2">Behold, His reward is with Him,</div><div class="po2">And His recompense before Him.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Even as a shepherd that feedeth his flock,</div><div class="po2">That gathereth the lambs in his arm,</div><div class="po2">And carrieth them in his bosom,</div><div class="po2">And gently leadeth those that give suck.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,</div><div class="po2">And meted out heaven with the span,</div><div class="po2">And comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure,</div><div class="po2">And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in a balance?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Who hath meted out the spirit of the LORD?</div><div class="po2">Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him,</div><div class="po2">And taught Him in the path of right,</div><div class="po2">And taught Him knowledge,</div><div class="po2">And made Him to know the way of discernment?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,</div><div class="po2">And are counted as the small dust of the balance;</div><div class="po2">Behold the isles are as a mote in weight.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel,</div><div class="po2">Nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>All the nations are as nothing before Him;</div><div class="po2">They are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom then will ye liken God?</div><div class="po2">Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted,</div><div class="po2">And the goldsmith spread over with gold,</div><div class="po2">The silversmith casting silver chains?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>A holm-oak is set apart,</div><div class="po2">He chooseth a tree that will not rot;</div><div class="po2">He seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman</div><div class="po2">To set up an image, that shall not be moved.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Know ye not? hear ye not?</div><div class="po2">Hath it not been told you from the beginning?</div><div class="po2">Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth,</div><div class="po2">And the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;</div><div class="po2">That stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain,</div><div class="po2">And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That bringeth princes to nothing;</div><div class="po2">He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Scarce are they planted,</div><div class="po2">Scarce are they sown,</div><div class="po2">Scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth;</div><div class="po2">When He bloweth upon them, they wither,</div><div class="po2">And the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal?</div><div class="po2">Saith the Holy One.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high,</div><div class="po2">And see: who hath created these?</div><div class="po2">He that bringeth out their host by number,</div><div class="po2">He calleth them all by name;</div><div class="po2">By the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power,</div><div class="po2">Not one faileth.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Why sayest thou, O Jacob,</div><div class="po2">And speakest, O Israel: ‘My way is hid from the LORD,</div><div class="po2">And my right is passed over from my God’?</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard</div><div class="po2">That the everlasting God, the LORD,</div><div class="po2">The Creator of the ends of the earth,</div><div class="po2">Fainteth not, neither is weary?</div><div class="po2">His discernment is past searching out.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>He giveth power to the faint;</div><div class="po2">And to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Even the youths shall faint and be weary,</div><div class="po2">And the young men shall utterly fall;</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/40-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But they that wait for the LORD shall renew their strength;</div><div class="po2">They shall mount up with wings as eagles;</div><div class="po2">They shall run, and not be weary;</div><div class="po2">They shall walk, and not faint.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/39.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 39"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 39" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/41.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 41"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" 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