Presents pamphlet #6440
The Book of
Isaiah
Chapter 40
Isaiah 40:1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith
your God.
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.
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.
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:
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.
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:
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because
the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the
word of our God shall stand for ever.
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!
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.
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.
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?
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or
being his counsellor hath taught him?
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?
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.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the
beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.
17 All nations before him are as nothing; and they
are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
will ye compare unto him?
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the
goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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.
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it
not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations
of the earth?
22 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth
out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell
in:
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh
the judges of the earth as vanity.
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall
not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he
shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall
take them away as stubble.
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath
created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth
them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong
in power; not one faileth.
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel,
My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that
the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth
not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that
have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew
their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run,
and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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