1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:1
2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:2
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:3
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: KJVSD — Isaiah 40:4
5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see [it] together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken [it]. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:5
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh [is] grass, and all the goodliness thereof [is] as the flower of the field: KJVSD — Isaiah 40:6
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people [is] grass. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:7
8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:8
9 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift [it] up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! KJVSD — Isaiah 40:9
10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong [hand], and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward [is] with him, and his work before him. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:10
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry [them] in his bosom, [and] shall gently lead those that are with young. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:11
12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:12
13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or [being] his counsellor hath taught him? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:13
14 With whom took he counsel, and [who] instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:14
15 Behold, the nations [are] as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:15
16 And Lebanon [is] not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:16
17 All nations before him [are] as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:17
18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:18
19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:19
20 He that [is] so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree [that] will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, [that] shall not be moved. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:20
21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:21
22 [It is] he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof [are] as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: KJVSD — Isaiah 40:22
23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:23
24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:24
25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:25
26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these [things], that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that [he is] strong in power; not one faileth. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:26
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? KJVSD — Isaiah 40:27
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, [that] the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? [there is] no searching of his understanding. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:28
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to [them that have] no might he increaseth strength. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:29
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: KJVSD — Isaiah 40:30
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew [their] strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; [and] they shall walk, and not faint. KJVSD — Isaiah 40:31