Isaiah 40
40:1Take comfort! take comfort! my people, says your God.
40:2O priests, speak to the heart of Jerusalem! Comfort her! for her humiliation was filled up; her sin is untied; for she received from the hand of the lord double her sins.
40:3A voice yelling in the wilderness, Prepare the way of the lord! Make straight the roads of our God!
40:4Every ravine shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be lowered; and all the crooked paths shall be for straight, and the rough into smooth plains.
40:5And the glory of the lord shall be seen; and all flesh shall see the deliverance of God, for the lord said it.
40:6A voice saying, Yell! And I said, What shall I yell? All flesh is as grass, and all glory of man is as the flower of grass.
40:7The grass is dried, and the flower fell off, for breath of God breathed in it. Truly the grass is the people.
40:8The grass is dried, the flower fell off, but the word of our God abides into the eon.
40:9Ascend upon the high mountain! O one announcing good news of Zion. Raise up high in the strength of your voice! O one announcing good news of Jerusalem. Raise it up high! Do not fear! Say to the cities of Judah! Behold, your God.
40:10Behold, the Lord. The lord comes with strength, even the arm with dominion. Behold, his wage is with him, and the work before him.
40:11As a shepherd, he shall tend his flock; and his arm shall gather the lambs, and he shall comfort the one having one in the womb.
40:12Who measured the water with the hand, and the heaven with a span, and all the earth in a handful? Who established the mountains weight, and the groves in a yoke balance scale?
40:13Who knew the mind of the lord? and who became his counselor? Who shall instruct him?
40:14Or whom did he take up advice with, and instructed him? Or who showed to him equity? Or who showed to him a way of understanding?
40:15Since all the nations were considered as a drop from a pail and as the crux of a yoke balance scale; and they are considered as saliva.
40:16And Lebanon is not fit for burning, and all the four-footed are not fit for a whole offering;
40:17and all the nations are as nothing, and were considered as nothing to him.
40:18To whom did you liken the lord, and to what representation did you liken him?
40:19Has not the fabricator made an image? or the goldsmith having cast gold, gilt it over, and carefully prepared it for a representation?
40:20For the fabricator chooses incorruptible wood, and wisely seeks how to station his image, that it should not be shaken.
40:21Will you not know? Will you not hear? Was it not announced from the beginning to you? Did you not know the foundations of the earth?
40:22He is the one controlling the curve of the earth, and the ones dwelling in it are as locusts; He is the one establishing the heaven as a vault, and extending it out as a tent to dwell in;
40:23the one establishing rulers to rule as nothing; and he made the earth as nothing.
40:24For in no way shall they plant, nor shall they sow, nor shall they be rooted in the earth of their root. He breathed upon them, and they were dried up; and a blast shall take them away as sticks.
40:25Now then, to whom did you liken me that I shall be exalted, said the holy one?
40:26Look up into the height with your eyes, and behold! Who introduced all these things? The one bringing forth his cosmos by number shall call all things by name by great glory, and by the might of strength. Nothing of which you are unaware.
40:27For you should not say, O Jacob, and why did you speak, O Israel, saying, My way was concealed from God, and my God removed judgment, and departed.
40:28And now, did you not know? Have you not heard? the eternal God, the God carefully preparing the tips of the earth, he shall not hunger nor tire, nor is there a finding out of his intelligence;
40:29giving strength to the ones hungering, and distress to the ones not grieving.
40:30For younger men shall hunger, and the young shall tire, and the chosen men will be without strength.
40:31But the ones waiting upon God shall change in strength; they shall grow wings as eagles; they shall run and shall not tire; they shall proceed and shall not hunger.