Thematic Bible
Isaiah 40:1 (show verse)
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
Isaiah 40:2 (show verse)
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.
Isaiah 40:3 (show verse)
A voice of one calling: In the wilderness prepare the way for Jehovah. Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 40:4 (show verse)
Every valley will be raised up! Every mountain and hill made low. The rough ground will become level and the rugged places a plain.
Isaiah 40:5 (show verse)
The glory of Jehovah will be revealed and together all mankind will see it. For the mouth of Jehovah has spoken!
Isaiah 40:6 (show verse)
A voice shouts: Cry out! And I said: What shall I cry? The voice shouts: All men are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field.
Isaiah 40:7 (show verse)
The grass withers and the flowers fall, because the breath of Jehovah blows on them. Surely the people are grass.
Isaiah 40:8 (show verse)
The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.
Isaiah 40:9 (show verse)
You bring good news to Zion. Go up on a high mountain. You bring good news to Jerusalem. Lift up your voice with a shout! Lift it up and do not be afraid! Say to the towns of Judah: Here is your God!
Isaiah 40:10 (show verse)
See the Sovereign Lord Jehovah comes with power. His arm (power) rules for him. See, his reward is with him and his recompense accompanies him.
Isaiah 40:11 (show verse)
He tends his flock like a shepherd. He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart. He gently leads those that have young.
Isaiah 40:12 (show verse)
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, or with the span of his hand marked off the heavens? Who has held the dust of the earth in a basket, or weighed the mountains on the scales and the hills in a balance of the scale?
Isaiah 40:13 (show verse)
Who has understood the mind of Jehovah, or has instructed him, as his counselor?
Isaiah 40:14 (show verse)
Whom did Jehovah consult to enlighten him? Who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?
Isaiah 40:15 (show verse)
Truly the nations are like a drop in a bucket! They are regarded as dust on the scales! He weighs the islands as though they were fine dust.
Isaiah 40:16 (show verse)
Lebanon is not sufficient for altar fires, nor its animals enough for burnt offerings.
Isaiah 40:17 (show verse)
Before him all the nations are as nothing! He regards them as worthless and less than nothing.
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Isaiah 40:18 (show verse)
To whom, then, will you compare God? What image will you compare him to?
Isaiah 40:19 (show verse)
As for an idol, a craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and fashions silver chains for it.
Isaiah 40:20 (show verse)
A man too poor to present such an offering selects wood that will not rot. He looks for a skilled craftsman to set up an idol that will not topple.
Isaiah 40:21 (show verse)
Have you not known? Have you not heard? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood since the earth was founded?
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Isaiah 40:22 (show verse)
He sits enthroned above the circle of the earth, and its people are like grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens like a canopy, and spreads them out like a tent to live in.
Isaiah 40:23 (show verse)
He brings princes to nothing and reduces the rulers of this world to nothing.
Isaiah 40:24 (show verse)
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Isaiah 40:25 (show verse)
To whom will you compare me? Who is my equal? says the Holy One.
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Isaiah 40:26 (show verse)
Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? The being that brings out the starry host one by one, and calls them each by name created all these! Because of his great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing.
Isaiah 40:27 (show verse)
Why do you say, O Jacob, and complain, O Israel: 'My way is hidden from Jehovah! My God disregards my cause?'
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Isaiah 40:28 (show verse)
Do you not know? Have you not heard? JEHOVAH IS THE EVERLASTING GOD, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He will not grow tired or weary, and no one can measure (find out) his understanding.
Isaiah 40:29 (show verse)
He gives strength to those who grow tired and increases the strength of those who are weak.
Isaiah 40:30 (show verse)
Even young people grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.
Isaiah 40:31 (show verse)
Those who hope in Jehovah will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary! They will walk and not be faint.