Chapter
Isaiah 40
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Book 1
Verses 31
| Reference | Verse |
|---|---|
| Isaiah 40:1 | Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. |
| Isaiah 40:2 | Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins. |
| Isaiah 40:3 | The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. |
| Isaiah 40:4 | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: |
| Isaiah 40:5 | And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. |
| Isaiah 40:6 | The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: |
| Isaiah 40:7 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. |
| Isaiah 40:8 | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. |
| Isaiah 40:9 | O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! |
| Isaiah 40:10 | Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. |
| Isaiah 40:11 | He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. |
| Isaiah 40:12 | Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? |
| Isaiah 40:13 | Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? |
| Isaiah 40:14 | With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? |
| Isaiah 40:15 | Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. |
| Isaiah 40:16 | And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. |
| Isaiah 40:17 | All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. |
| Isaiah 40:18 | To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? |
| Isaiah 40:19 | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. |
| Isaiah 40:20 | He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. |
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