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Isaiah 40

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Isaiah 40
God’s People Are Comforted
1 # Isa 12.1 Comfort, O comfort my people,
says your God.
2 # Isa 33.24; 35.4; 41.11–13; Jer 16.18 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that she has served her term,
that her penalty is paid,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
3 # Mal 3.1; Mt 3.3; Jn 1.23 A voice cries out:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 # Isa 45.2 Every valley shall be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill be made low;
the uneven ground shall become level,
and the rough places a plain.
5Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6 # Job 14.2; Ps 102.11; 103.15; 1 Pet 1.24, 25 A voice says, “Cry out!”
And I said,#40.6 Q ms Gk Vg: MT and he said “What shall I cry?”
All flesh is grass;
their constancy is like the flower of the field.
7 # v 24 ; Ps 90.5, 6The grass withers; the flower fades,
[[when the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
surely the people are grass.
8 # Isa 55.11; Mt 5.18; 1 Pet 1.24, 25 The grass withers; the flower fades,]]#40.7–8 Q ms Gk lack when the breath…flower fades
but the word of our God will stand forever.
9 # Isa 52.7; 61.1; Acts 10.36; Rom 10.15 Get you up to a high mountain,
O Zion, herald of good news;#40.9 Or O herald of good news to Zion
lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, herald of good news;#40.9 Or O herald of good news to Jerusalem
lift it up, do not fear;
say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
10 # Isa 59.16, 18; 62.11; Rev 22.12 See, the Lord God comes with might,
and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him
and his recompense before him.
11 # Ezek 34.23; Mic 5.4; Jn 10.11; Heb 13.20 He will feed his flock like a shepherd;
he will gather the lambs in his arms
and carry them in his bosom
and gently lead the mother sheep.
12 # Job 38.8–11; Isa 48.13; Heb 1.10–12 Who has measured the waters of the sea#40.12 Q ms: MT lacks of the sea in the hollow of his hand
and marked off the heavens with a span,
enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure
and weighed the mountains in scales
and the hills in a balance?
13 # Rom 11.34; 1 Cor 2.16 Who has directed the spirit of the Lord
or as his counselor has instructed him?
14Whom did he consult for his enlightenment,
and who taught him the path of justice?
[[Who taught him knowledge
and showed him the way of understanding?
15 # Isa 17.13; 29.5; Jer 10.10 Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket
and are accounted as dust on the scales;
see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.
16Lebanon would not provide fuel enough,
nor are its animals enough for a burnt offering.]]#40.14–16 Q ms lacks Who taught him…burnt offering
17 # Isa 29.7; 30.28 All the nations are as nothing before him;
they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.
18 # v 25 ; Isa 46.5; Mic 7.18; Acts 17.29To whom, then, will you liken God,
or what likeness compare with him?
19 # Isa 41.6, 7; 44.12; Jer 10.3 An idol? A workman casts it,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold
and casts for it silver chains.
20 # Isa 41.7; Jer 10.3–5 As a gift one chooses mulberry wood#40.20 Meaning of Heb uncertain
—wood that will not rot—
then seeks out a skilled artisan
to set up an image that will not topple.
21 # Ps 19.1; Acts 14.17; Rom 1.19 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22 # Num 13.33; Job 22.14; Ps 104.2; Isa 42.5; 44.24 It is he who sits above the circle of the earth,
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain
and spreads them like a tent to live in,
23 # Job 12.21; Ps 107.40; Isa 5.21 who brings princes to naught
and makes the rulers of the earth as nothing.
24 # v 7 ; Isa 17.10, 11, 13; 41.16Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown,
scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth,
when he blows upon them, and they wither,
and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
25 # v 18 To whom, then, will you compare me,
or who is my equal? says the Holy One.
26 # Ps 89.11–13; 147.4; Isa 34.16; 42.5; 51.6 Lift up your eyes on high and see:
Who created these?
He who brings out their host and numbers them,
calling them all by name;
because he is great in strength,
mighty in power,
not one is missing.
27 # Isa 25.1; 49.4, 14; 54.8; Lk 18.7, 8 Why do you say, O Jacob,
and assert, O Israel,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my right is disregarded by my God”?
28 # Ps 90.2; 147.5; Rom 11.33 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.
29 # Isa 41.10; 50.4; Jer 31.25 He gives power to the faint
and strengthens the powerless.
30Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted,
31 # Deut 32.11; Ps 103.5; 2 Cor 4.1, 8–10, 16; Heb 12.3 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.

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