Isaiah 40 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Greatness of God

(cf. Luk 3:4–6 )

Isa 40:1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Isa 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

Isa 40:3

Isa 40:3The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

Isa 40:4

Isa 40:4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:

Isa 40:5

Isa 40:5and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

Isa 40:6

Isa 40:6The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field.

Isa 40:7

Isa 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass.

Isa 40:8

Isa 40:8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

Isa 40:9

Isa 40:9O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!

Isa 40:10

Isa 40:10Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

Isa 40:11

Isa 40:11He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that have their young.

Isa 40:12

Isa 40:12Who 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?

Isa 40:13

Isa 40:13Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?

Isa 40:14

Isa 40:14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

Isa 40:15

Isa 40:15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

Isa 40:16

Isa 40:16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Isa 40:17

Isa 40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

Isa 40:18

Isa 40:18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

Isa 40:19

Isa 40:19The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.

Isa 40:20

Isa 40:20He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved.

Isa 40:21

Isa 40:21Have 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?

Isa 40:22

Isa 40:22It is he that sitteth above 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;

Isa 40:23

Isa 40:23that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isa 40:24

Isa 40:24Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

Isa 40:25

Isa 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.

Isa 40:26

Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.

Isa 40:27

Isa 40:27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is passed away from my God?

Isa 40:28

Isa 40:28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.

Isa 40:29

Isa 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

Isa 40:30

Isa 40:30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Isa 40:31

Isa 40:31but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

Thomas Nelson & Sons first published the American Standard Version in 1901. This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

Isaiah 40 :: American Standard Version (ASV)

The Greatness of God

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