Isaiah 40 :: Webster's Bible (WEB)

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 to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

Isa 40:3

Isa 40:3The 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.

Isa 40:4

Isa 40:4Every 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.

Isa 40:5

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

Isa 40:6

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

Isa 40:7

Isa 40:7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD 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 shall stand forever.

Isa 40:9

Isa 40:9O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

Isa 40:10

Isa 40:10Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm will rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

Isa 40:11

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

Isa 40:12

Isa 40:12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured 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 the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught him?

Isa 40:14

Isa 40:14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, 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 counted 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 of it sufficient for a burnt-offering.

Isa 40:17

Isa 40:17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

Isa 40:18

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

Isa 40:19

Isa 40:19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

Isa 40:20

Isa 40:20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare 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 upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants 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 the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

Isa 40:24

Isa 40:24Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, 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.

Isa 40:25

Isa 40:25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equaled? saith the Holy One.

Isa 40:26

Isa 40:26Lift 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.

Isa 40:27

Isa 40:27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God?

Isa 40:28

Isa 40:28Hast 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.

Isa 40:29

Isa 40:29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have 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 upon the LORD 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.

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The Greatness of God

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