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OEB ISA Chapter 40

ISA 40 ©

40‘Comfort you, comfort my people,’

declares your God.

2‘Speak home to the heart of Jerusalem,

cry unto her

that her time of sore service is over,

her guilt is discharged;

for her sins she has doubly atoned

at the hand of the Lord.’


3Hark! Says a voice, ‘In the wilderness

clear you a way for the Lord;

make you straight in the desert

a highway for our God.

4Let every valley be raised,

every mountain and hill brought low;

let the steep rugged ground become level,

the rough rocky ridges a plain.

5Then the Lord will show forth his glory,

and all fresh will see it together:

the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.’


6Hark! Says a voice, ‘Proclaim.’

‘What should I proclaim?’ said I.

‘Proclaim that all flesh is grass,

all its grace as the flower of the field.

7The grass withers, the flower fades,

when upon it the breath of the Lord has blown.

8Yea, the grass withers, the flower fades;

but the word of our God will stand for ever.’


9Get you up to a mountain high,

you who tell good tidings to Zion;

lift up your voice with strength,

you who bring good news to Jerusalem;

lift it up, be not afraid.

Say to the cities of Judah,

‘Yonder comes your God.’


10See! The Lord is coming in might,

with an arm that ensures his dominion.

Behold, his reward is with him,

his recompense is before him.

11He feeds his flock like a shepherd,

he gathered it with his arm;

he carries the lambs in his bosom,

and those who give suck he leads.

The sovereignty and omnipotence of God as seen in nature

12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand?

Who has ruled off the heavens with a span,

comprehend the dust of the earth in a measure,

and weighed the mountains in scales,

and the hills in a balance?


13Who has directed the mind of the Lord?

And where is the counsellor who taught him?

14Whom did he ask for enlightenment?

Who taught him the pathway of right,

or showed him the way of true insight?


15See! Nations are nothing but a drop on a bucket,

they count but as dust on a balance;

he lifted the isles like a mote.

16Too small for the fires (of his altars) is Lebanon,

too few are its breasts for an offering.


17All nations are nothing before him,

he counts them but empty nothing.

18So to whom will you liken God,

or what likeness set over against him?

19An imagine! A craftsman has cast it,

ISA 40 ©

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