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# Isaiah 40 (New King James Version)
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God's People Are Comforted
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##### Chapter 40
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###### 1 "Comfort, yes, comfort My people!"
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Says your God.
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###### 2 "Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
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That her warfare is ended,
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That her iniquity is pardoned;
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For she has received from the Lord's hand
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Double for all her sins."
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###### 3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
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"Prepare the way of the Lord;
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Make straight in the desert
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A highway for our God.
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###### 4 Every valley shall be exalted
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And every mountain and hill brought low;
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The crooked places shall be made straight
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And the rough places smooth;
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###### 5 The glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
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And all flesh shall see _it_ together;
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For the mouth of the Lord has spoken."
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###### 6 The voice said, "Cry out!"
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And he said, "What shall I cry?"
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"All flesh _is_ grass,
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And all its loveliness _is_ like the flower of the field.
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###### 7 The grass withers, the flower fades,
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Because the breath of the Lord blows upon it;
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Surely the people _are_ grass.
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###### 8 The grass withers, the flower fades,
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But the word of our God stands forever."
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###### 9 O Zion,
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You who bring good tidings,
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Get up into the high mountain;
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O Jerusalem,
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You who bring good tidings,
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Lift up your voice with strength,
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Lift _it_ up, be not afraid;
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Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your God!"
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###### 10 Behold, the Lord God shall come with a strong _hand,_
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And His arm shall rule for Him;
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Behold, His reward _is_ with Him,
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And His work before Him.
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###### 11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd;
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He will gather the lambs with His arm,
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And carry _them_ in His bosom,
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_And_ gently lead those who are with young.
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###### 12 Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand,
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Measured heaven with a span
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And calculated the dust of the earth in a measure?
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Weighed the mountains in scales
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And the hills in a balance?
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###### 13 Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord,
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Or _as_ His counselor has taught Him?
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###### 14 With whom did He take counsel, and _who_ instructed Him,
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And taught Him in the path of justice?
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Who taught Him knowledge,
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And showed Him the way of understanding?
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###### 15 Behold, the nations _are_ as a drop in a bucket,
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And are counted as the small dust on the scales;
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Look, He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.
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###### 16 And Lebanon _is_ not sufficient to burn,
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Nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.
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###### 17 All nations before Him _are_ as nothing,
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And they are counted by Him less than nothing and worthless.
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###### 18 To whom then will you liken God?
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Or what likeness will you compare to Him?
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###### 19 The workman molds an image,
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The goldsmith overspreads it with gold,
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And the silversmith casts silver chains.
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###### 20 Whoever _is_ too impoverished for _such_ a contribution
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Chooses a tree _that_ will not rot;
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He seeks for himself a skillful workman
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To prepare a carved image _that_ will not totter.
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###### 21 Have you not known?
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Have you not heard?
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Has it not been told you from the beginning?
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Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
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###### 22 _It is_ He who sits above the circle of the earth,
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And its inhabitants _are_ like grasshoppers,
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Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
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And spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.
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###### 23 He brings the princes to nothing;
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He makes the judges of the earth useless.
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###### 24 Scarcely shall they be planted,
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Scarcely shall they be sown,
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Scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,
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When He will also blow on them,
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And they will wither,
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And the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.
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###### 25 "To whom then will you liken Me,
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Or _to whom_ shall I be equal?" says the Holy One.
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###### 26 Lift up your eyes on high,
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And see who has created these _things,_
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Who brings out their host by number;
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He calls them all by name,
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By the greatness of His might
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And the strength of _His_ power;
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Not one is missing.
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###### 27 Why do you say, O Jacob,
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And speak, O Israel:
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"My way is hidden from the Lord,
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And my just claim is passed over by my God"?
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###### 28 Have you not known?
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Have you not heard?
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The everlasting God, the Lord,
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The Creator of the ends of the earth,
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Neither faints nor is weary.
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His understanding is unsearchable.
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###### 29 He gives power to the weak,
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And to _those who have_ no might He increases strength.
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###### 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
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And the young men shall utterly fall,
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###### 31 But those who wait on the Lord
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Shall renew _their_ strength;
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They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
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They shall run and not be weary,
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They shall walk and not faint.
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