Thematic Bible
Isaiah 40:1 (show verse)
says your God.
Isaiah 40:2 (show verse)
and announce to her
that her time of forced labor is over,
her iniquity
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”
Isaiah 40:3 (show verse)
A voice of one crying out:
Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Isaiah 40:4 (show verse)
and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
the uneven ground will become smooth
and the rough places, a plain.
Isaiah 40:5 (show verse)
and all humanity
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Isaiah 40:6 (show verse)
Another
“All humanity is grass,
and all its goodness is like the flower of the field.
Isaiah 40:7 (show verse)
when the breath
indeed, the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:8 (show verse)
but the word of our God remains forever.”
Isaiah 40:9 (show verse)
go up on a high mountain.
Jerusalem, herald of good news,
raise your voice loudly.
Raise it, do not be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
Isaiah 40:10 (show verse)
and His power establishes His rule.
His reward is with Him,
and His gifts accompany Him.
Isaiah 40:11 (show verse)
He gathers the lambs in His arms
and carries them in the fold of His garment.
He gently leads those that are nursing.
Isaiah 40:12 (show verse)
or marked off the heavens with the span of his hand?
Who has gathered the dust of the earth in a measure
or weighed the mountains in a balance
and the hills in the scales?
Isaiah 40:13 (show verse)
or who gave Him His counsel?
Isaiah 40:14 (show verse)
Who gave Him understanding
and taught Him the paths of justice?
Who taught Him knowledge
and showed Him the way of understanding?
Isaiah 40:15 (show verse)
they are considered as a speck of dust in the scales;
He lifts up the islands like fine dust.
Isaiah 40:16 (show verse)
or its animals enough for a burnt offering.
Isaiah 40:17 (show verse)
they are considered by Him
as nothingness and emptiness.
No Themes for this verse.
Isaiah 40:18 (show verse)
What likeness will you compare Him to?
Isaiah 40:19 (show verse)
and a metalworker plates with gold
and makes silver welds for it?
Isaiah 40:20 (show verse)
choosing wood that does not rot?
He looks for a skilled craftsman
to set up an idol that will not fall over.
Isaiah 40:21 (show verse)
Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you
from the beginning?
Have you not considered
the foundations of the earth?
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Isaiah 40:22 (show verse)
its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like thin cloth
and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:23 (show verse)
and makes judges of the earth irrational.
Isaiah 40:24 (show verse)
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
Isaiah 40:25 (show verse)
or who is My equal?” asks the Holy One.
No Themes for this verse.
Isaiah 40:26 (show verse)
who created
He brings out the starry host by number;
He calls all of them by name.
Because of His great power and strength,
not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:27 (show verse)
and Israel, why do you assert:
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
No Themes for this verse.
Isaiah 40:28 (show verse)
Have you not heard?
Yahweh is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never grows faint or weary;
there is no limit to His understanding.
Isaiah 40:29 (show verse)
and strengthens the powerless.
Isaiah 40:30 (show verse)
and young men stumble and fall,
Isaiah 40:31 (show verse)
will renew their strength;
they will soar on wings like eagles;
they will run and not grow weary;
they will walk and not faint.