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ULT ISA Chapter 40

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40 “Comfort, comfort my people,”

says your God.

2 “Speak to the heart of Jerusalem

and proclaim to her

that her service is full,

that her iniquity is pardoned,

that she has received from the hand of Yahweh

double for all her sins.”

3 A voice is calling out,

“Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness!

Straighten a highway for our God in the Arabah!

4 Let every valley be lifted up,

and let every mountain and hill become low.

And let the uneven become level ground,

and the ridges, a broad valley.

5 And the glory of Yahweh will be revealed,

and all flesh will see it together,”

for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken.

6 A voice says, “Call out.”

And I said, “What shall I call out?”

“All flesh is grass,

and all of its covenant faithfulness is like the flower of the field.

7 The grass dries up, the flower withers,

for the breath of Yahweh blows on it;

surely the people are grass.

8 The grass dries up, the flower withers,

but the word of our God will stand forever.”

9 Go up for yourself on a high mountain,

herald of Zion.

Raise your voice with might,

herald of Jerusalem.

Raise it, do not fear.

Say to the cities of Judah,

“Behold, your God!”

10 Behold, the Lord Yahweh comes with strength,

and his arm is ruling for him.

Behold, his reward is with him,

and his recompense is to his face.

11 He will tend his flock like a shepherd.

In his arm he will gather the lambs,

and he will carry themin his bosom;

he will lead the nursing ones.

12 Who has measured the waters in his palm

or measured the heavens with a span

or held the dust of the earth in a triple

or weighed the mountains in a scale

or the hills in a balance?

13 Who has measured the Spirit of Yahweh

or, as a man of his counsel, has advised him?

14 By whom was he counseled,

and who made him understand

and taught him in the path of justice

and taught him knowledge

and made him know the way of understanding?

15 Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,

and they are regarded like dust on the scales.

Behold, he lifts the coastlands like fine dust.

16 And Lebanon is not enough to burn,

and its beasts are not enough for a burnt offering.

17 All of the nations are like nought before him;

they are regarded by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

18 So to whom will you liken God,

and what likeness will you compare to him?

19 An idol? A craftsman casts it,

and a metalworker overlays it with gold,

and he is forging chains of silver.

20 The one impoverished in a contribution

chooses wood that will not rot.

He seeks for himself a skillful craftsman

to set up an idol that will not be moved.

21 Do you not know? Have you not heard?

Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?

Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 The one sitting above the circle of the earth,

and its dwellers are like grasshoppers,

the one stretching out the heavens like a curtain,

and he spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,

23 the one making princes into nothing;

he makes the judges of the earth like emptiness.

24 Indeed, they are not planted; indeed, they are not sown;

indeed, their stem has not rooted in the earth,

and also he blows on them and they dry up,

and a whirlwind carries them away like straw.

25 “So to whom will you liken me,

that I should be equal?” says the Holy One.

26 Lift up your eyes to the height and see!

Who created these?

The one bringing out their army by number;

he calls to all of them by name.

From greatness of might and strength of power,

a man is not missing.

27 Why do you say, Jacob,

and speak, Israel,

“My way is hidden from Yahweh,

and my justice passes over from my God”?

28 Do you not know? If you have not heard?

The God of eternity, Yahweh,

the Creator of the ends of the earth,

does not tire and does not become weary.

There is no searching of his understanding.

29 He gives strength to the tired,

and to the one without forces he increases might.

30 Even youths tire and become weary,

and young men, stumbling, they stumble.

31 But the ones waiting for Yahweh will renew their strength.

They will ascend on a wing like eagles.

They will run and not become weary.

They will walk and not tire.