{"id":293,"date":"2009-09-22T01:21:38","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/eng\/isaiah-40"},"modified":"2006-11-03T12:55:45","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T17:55:45","slug":"isaiah-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purposedriven.ca\/wiki\/2009\/09\/22\/isaiah-40\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaiah 40"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Isa 40:1  Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God.<br \/>\nIsa 40:2  Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.<br \/>\nIsa 40:3  The voice of him who cries in the wilderness: Prepare the way of Jehovah; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.<br \/>\nIsa 40:4  Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the knoll shall be a level place, and the rough places a plain.<br \/>\nIsa 40:5  And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of Jehovah has spoken.<br \/>\nIsa 40:6  A voice said, Cry! And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its grace as the flower of the field!<br \/>\nIsa 40:7  The grass withers, the flower fades because the Spirit of Jehovah blows on it. Surely the people is grass.<br \/>\nIsa 40:8  The grass withers; the flower fades; but the Word of our God shall rise forever.<br \/>\nIsa 40:9  Go up for yourself on the high mountain, one bearing good news to Zion; lift up your voice with strength, one bearing good news to Jerusalem. Lift up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, Behold! Your God!<br \/>\nIsa 40:10  Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with strength, and His arm rules for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His wage before Him.<br \/>\nIsa 40:11  He shall feed His flock like a shepherd; He shall gather lambs with His arm; and carry them in His bosom; those with young He will lead;<br \/>\nIsa 40:12  He who has measured in His hand the waters and the heavens by a span meted out; and enclosed in the measure the dust of the earth, and weighed in the balance the mountains, and the hills in the scales,<br \/>\nIsa 40:13  Who has meted out the Spirit of Jehovah, or a man His counsel taught Him?<br \/>\nIsa 40:14  With whom did He take counsel, and who trained Him and taught Him in the path of justice; and taught Him knowledge, and made known to Him the way of discernment?<br \/>\nIsa 40:15  Lo, nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are reckoned as dust of the scales. Lo, He takes up coasts as a little thing.<br \/>\nIsa 40:16  And Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering.<br \/>\nIsa 40:17  All the nations are as nothing before Him; to Him they are reckoned less than nothing and emptiness.<br \/>\nIsa 40:18  And to whom will you liken God? Or what likeness will you array to Him?<br \/>\nIsa 40:19  The craftsman pours out the casted image, the smelter spreads it with gold; and he casts the chains of silver.<br \/>\nIsa 40:20  He too poor for that offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks a skilled artisan for him, to prepare a carved image that will not be shaken.<br \/>\nIsa 40:21  Have you not known? Have you not heard? Was it not told to you from the beginning? Did you not discern from the foundations of the earth?<br \/>\nIsa 40:22  He who sits on the circle of the earth, even those living in it are like grasshoppers; He who stretches the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to live in;<br \/>\nIsa 40:23  who gives potentates into nothing. He makes judges of the earth as nothing.<br \/>\nIsa 40:24  Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they are not sown; yea, their stem is not taking root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall lift them up like stubble.<br \/>\nIsa 40:25  To whom then will you compare Me, or am I equaled, says the Holy One?<br \/>\nIsa 40:26  Lift up your eyes on high and look: Who has created these? Who brings out their host by number? By greatness of vigor, and might of power, He calls them all by names; not one is lacking.<br \/>\nIsa 40:27  Why will you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel; My way is hidden from Jehovah, and my judgment is passed over by my God?<br \/>\nIsa 40:28  Have you not known? Have you not heard? Jehovah, the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He is not faint, nor does He grow weary; there is no searching to His understanding.<br \/>\nIsa 40:29  He gives power to the faint, and to him with no vigor He increases might.<br \/>\nIsa 40:30  Even youths are faint and fatigued, and young men stumbling shall stumble;<br \/>\nIsa 40:31  but the ones waiting for Jehovah shall renew power; they shall go up with wings as the eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not be faint! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Isa 40:1 Comfort, O comfort My people, says your God. Isa 40:2 Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem; yea, cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has taken from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins. 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