Isaiah 40 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

The Greatness of God

(cf. Luk 3:4–6 )

Isa 40:1Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

Isa 40:2Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.

Isa 40:3

Isa 40:3A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

Isa 40:4

Isa 40:4Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,

Isa 40:5

Isa 40:5And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it.

Isa 40:6

Isa 40:6A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field.

Isa 40:7

Isa 40:7The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.

Isa 40:8

Isa 40:8The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.

Isa 40:9

Isa 40:9You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!

Isa 40:10

Isa 40:10See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him.

Isa 40:11

Isa 40:11He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.

Isa 40:12

Isa 40:12In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?

Isa 40:13

Isa 40:13By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher?

Isa 40:14

Isa 40:14Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?

Isa 40:15

Isa 40:15See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.

Isa 40:16

Isa 40:16And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering.

Isa 40:17

Isa 40:17All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.

Isa 40:18

Isa 40:18Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him?

Isa 40:19

Isa 40:19The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.

Isa 40:20

Isa 40:20The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved.

Isa 40:21

Isa 40:21Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?

Isa 40:22

Isa 40:22It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.

Isa 40:23

Isa 40:23He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value.

Isa 40:24

Isa 40:24They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Isa 40:25

Isa 40:25Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.

Isa 40:26

Isa 40:26Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places.

Isa 40:27

Isa 40:27Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause?

Isa 40:28

Isa 40:28Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom.

Isa 40:29

Isa 40:29He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force.

Isa 40:30

Isa 40:30Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

Isa 40:31

Isa 40:31But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness.

The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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The Greatness of God

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