Isaiah 40 :: Brenton's English Septuagint (BES)

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

Isa 40:2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord's hand double the amount of her sins.

Isa 40:3

Isa 40:3 [fn] The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

Isa 40:4

Isa 40:4Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: [fn]and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.

Isa 40:5

Isa 40:5And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken it.

Isa 40:6

Isa 40:6The voice of one saying, Cry; and I said, What shall I cry? [fn] All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass.

Isa 40:7

Isa 40:7The grass withers, and the flower fades:

Isa 40:8

Isa 40:8but the word of our God abides for ever.

Isa 40:9

Isa 40:9O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion, go up on the high mountain; lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; lift it up, fear not; say unto the cities of Juda, Behold your God!

Isa 40:10

Isa 40:10Behold the Lord! The Lord is coming with strength, and his arm is with power: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Isa 40:11

Isa 40:11He shall tend his flock as a shepherd, and he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and shall soothe them that are with young.

Isa 40:12

Isa 40:12Who has measured the water in his hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who has weighed the mountains in scales, and the forests in a balance?

Isa 40:13

Isa 40:13 [fn] Who has known the mind of the Lord? and who has been his counsellor, to instruct him?

Isa 40:14

Isa 40:14Or with whom has he taken counsel, and he has instructed him? or who has taught him judgment, or who has taught him the way of understanding;[fn]

Isa 40:15

Isa 40:15since all the nations are counted as a drop from a bucket, and as the turning of a balance, and shall be counted as spittle?

Isa 40:16

Isa 40:16And Libanus is not enough to burn, nor all beasts enough for a whole-burnt offering:

Isa 40:17

Isa 40:17and all the nations are as nothing, and counted as nothing.

Isa 40:18

Isa 40:18To whom have ye compared the Lord? and with what likeness have ye compared him?

Isa 40:19

Isa 40:19Has not the artificer made an image, or the goldsmith having melted gold, gilt it over, and made it a similitude?

Isa 40:20

Isa 40:20For the artificer chooses out a wood that will not rot, and will wisely enquire how he shall set up his image, and that so that it should not be moved.

Isa 40:21

Isa 40:21Will ye not know? will ye not hear? has it not been told you of old? Have ye not known the foundations of the earth?

Isa 40:22

Isa 40:22 It is he that comprehends the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants in it are as grasshoppers; he that set up the heaven as a chamber, and stretched it out as a tent to dwell in:

Isa 40:23

Isa 40:23he that appoints princes to rule as nothing, and has made the earth as nothing.

Isa 40:24

Isa 40:24For they shall not plant, neither shall they sow, neither shall their root be fixed in the ground: he has blown upon them, and they are withered, and a storm shall carry them away like sticks.

Isa 40:25

Isa 40:25Now then to whom have ye compared me, that I may be exalted? saith the Holy One.

Isa 40:26

Isa 40:26Lift up your eyes on high, and see, who has displayed all these things? even he that brings forth his host by number: he shall call them all by name by means of his great glory, and by the power of his might: nothing has escaped thee.

Isa 40:27

Isa 40:27For say not thou, O Jacob, and why hast thou spoken, Israel, saying, My way is hid from God, and my God has taken away my judgment, and has departed?

Isa 40:28

Isa 40:28And now, hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? the eternal God, the God that formed the ends of the earth, shall not hunger, nor be weary, and there is no searching of his understanding.

Isa 40:29

Isa 40:29He gives strength to the hungry, and sorrow to them that are not suffering.

Isa 40:30

Isa 40:30For the young men shall hunger, and the youths shall be weary, and the choice men shall be powerless:

Isa 40:31

Isa 40:31but they that wait on God shall renew their strength; they shall put forth new feathers like eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not hunger.