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Isaiah 40 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

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The Greatness of God

(cf. Luk 3:4–6 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:1 - Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:2 - Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD's hand double for all her sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:3 - A voice cries: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:4 - Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:5 - And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:6 - A voice says, "Cry!" And I said, "What shall I cry?" All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:7 - The grass withers, the flower fades, when the breath of the LORD blows upon it; surely the people is grass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:8 - The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand for ever.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:9 - Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good tidings, lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:10 - Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:11 - He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arms, he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:12 - Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:13 - Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or as his counselor has instructed him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:14 - Whom did he consult for his enlightenment, and who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:15 - Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:16 - Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:17 - All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:18 - To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:19 - The idol! a workman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:20 - He who is impoverished chooses for an offering wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skilful craftsman to set up an image that will not move.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:21 - Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:22 - 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 like a tent to dwell in;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:23 - who brings princes to nought, and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:24 - Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:25 - To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:26 - Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power not one is missing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:27 - Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way is hid from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God"?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:28 - Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary, his understanding is unsearchable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:29 - He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:30 - Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 40:31 - but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength, they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.
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Source: Transcribed from: The Holy Bible: Revised Standard Version containing the Old and New Testaments, translated from the original tongues: being the version set forth A.D. 1611, revised A.D. 1881-1885 and A.D. 1901: compared with the most ancient authorities and revised A.D. 1946-52. — 2nd ed. of New Testament A.D. 1971. There should be enough in the rest of the description to identify the text.

Language: English

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