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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 40 Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/40.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/40-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">HPBT</a> > Isaiah 40</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-1.htm#aramaic"><b>1</b></a></span>“Comfort her, comfort my people”, says your God<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-2.htm#aramaic"><b>2</b></a></span>Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her, because she was filled with power, and she delighted in sin, and she received from the hand of LORD JEHOVAH double of all her sins”<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-3.htm#aramaic"><b>3</b></a></span>The voice that cried out in the wilderness: “Return to the road for LORD JEHOVAH and straighten in the plain the street for our God<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-4.htm#aramaic"><b>4</b></a></span>All the valleys will be filled and all mountains and high places will be leveled, and the rugged place will be smooth, and the rough place a plain<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-5.htm#aramaic"><b>5</b></a></span>And the glory of LORD JEHOVAH shall be revealed, and everybody shall see it as one, because the mouth of LORD JEHOVAH has spoken<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-6.htm#aramaic"><b>6</b></a></span>The voice that said, ‘Cry out!’ also said: “What shall I cry out?” “Everybody is grass and all his beauty as a flower of the field<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-7.htm#aramaic"><b>7</b></a></span>Grass dries up and a flower fades, because the Spirit of LORD JEHOVAH blew on it; so is the grass of this people<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-8.htm#aramaic"><b>8</b></a></span>The grass dries up and the flower fades, and the word of God stands for eternities!”<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-9.htm#aramaic"><b>9</b></a></span>Go up on a high mountain for yourself, Oh Zion! Preaching good news, lift up your voice in power, oh Jerusalem! Preaching good news, lift up and you shall not fear! Say to the cities of Judea, ‘Behold your God!’”<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-10.htm#aramaic"><b>10</b></a></span>Behold, LORD JEHOVAH God comes in strength and his arm in power. Behold, his reward is with him and his work before him<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-11.htm#aramaic"><b>11</b></a></span>Like a Shepherd who shepherds his flock, and in his arm gathers the lambs, and holds them in his lap, and he feeds those that are nursing<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-12.htm#aramaic"><b>12</b></a></span>Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and he measured Heaven with a hand’s breadth and measured the dust of the Earth in the palm of his hand, and weighed the mountains in a scale and the hills in a balance<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-13.htm#aramaic"><b>13</b></a></span>Who has directed the Spirit of LORD JEHOVAH or who was Lord of Counsel to him?<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-14.htm#aramaic"><b>14</b></a></span>By whom was he counseled, and he taught him and he explained to him the way of judgment, and he taught him knowledge and he showed him the way of intelligence?<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-15.htm#aramaic"><b>15</b></a></span>Behold, the nations shall be cast off like a drop from a pot and like the tipping of a balance, and the islands like the dust<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-16.htm#aramaic"><b>16</b></a></span>And Lebanon is not considered by him for burning and its animals are not considered by him for a burnt offering<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-17.htm#aramaic"><b>17</b></a></span>And all the nations are considered as nothing to him. They are considered by him for destruction and for the sword<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-18.htm#aramaic"><b>18</b></a></span>To whom have you compared God and to what likeness have you likened him?<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-19.htm#aramaic"><b>19</b></a></span>An image is what a carpenter made, and a goldsmith overlaid it in gold and refined silver<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-20.htm#aramaic"><b>20</b></a></span>He fastened it, he selected it; it is wood that does not rot, and a carpenter chose and in his wisdom he engraved it and he constructed the image so that it is not shaken<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-21.htm#aramaic"><b>21</b></a></span>Have you not heard and have you not known, and was it not told to you from the beginning, and have you not understood the foundations of The Earth?<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-22.htm#aramaic"><b>22</b></a></span>And him who sits on the sphere of The Earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretched out the Heavens like a vaulted bowl, and stretched them out as a tent for a dwelling<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-23.htm#aramaic"><b>23</b></a></span>Who made the Rulers nothing and the Judges of the Earth as if they are not<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-24.htm#aramaic"><b>24</b></a></span>They shall not plant and they shall not sow seed, and they shall not set a root in the earth; he shall blow on them and they shall dry up and a whirlwind shall pick up them like trash<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-25.htm#aramaic"><b>25</b></a></span>To whom have you compared me that I am equal to him, says The Holy One?<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-26.htm#aramaic"><b>26</b></a></span>Lift up your eyes on high and see who has created these things, who brings out their armies by number, and he calls all of them by names in the abundance of his honor and in the strength of his power. No man is lost. .”<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-27.htm#aramaic"><b>27</b></a></span>Why, Yaqob, are you speaking, and you, Israel, say, “My ways are hidden from LORD JEHOVAH, and my judgment passes away from my God?"<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-28.htm#aramaic"><b>28</b></a></span>Have you not known and have you not heard, that God to eternity is LORD JEHOVAH, who created the ends of The Earth? He is not weary and is not fatigued by labor, and there is no searching of his understanding!<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-29.htm#aramaic"><b>29</b></a></span>He gives power to the stricken and to those afflicted of disease he increases strength<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-30.htm#aramaic"><b>30</b></a></span>Young men shall be troubled and they shall be weary, and boys, stumbling, shall stumble<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/40-31.htm#aramaic"><b>31</b></a></span>And those who hope in LORD JEHOVAH shall renew their power, and they shall grow wings like a dove, and they shall run and they shall not be tired, and they shall walk and shall not be troubled!” <p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Peshitta Holy Bible Translated<br>Translated by Glenn David Bauscher<br>Glenn David Bauscher<br>Lulu Publishing<br>Copyright © 2018 Lulu Publishing<br>3rd edition Copyright © 2019<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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" border="0" alt="Isaiah 41" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>