| 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye
comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah's hand
double for all her sins. 3 The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the
wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our
God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be
made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain:
5 and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it
together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it. 6 The voice of one
saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the
goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 7 The grass withereth,
the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the
people is grass. 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of
our God shall stand forever. 9 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion,
get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to
Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say
unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! 10 Behold, the Lord Jehovah
will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward
is with him, and his recompense before him. 11 He will feed his flock like
a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom,
and will gently lead those that have their young. 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? 13 Who hath directed the
Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him? 14 With whom
took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of
justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of
understanding? 15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are
accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as
a very little thing. 16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the
beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. 17 All the nations are as
nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and
vanity. 18 To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye
compare unto him? 19 The image, a workman hath cast it, and the
goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains.
20 He that is too impoverished for such an oblation chooseth a
tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a
graven image, that shall not be moved. 21 Have ye not known? have yet not
heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood
from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth above
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; 23 that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the
judges of the earth as vanity. 24 Yea, they have not been planted; yea,
they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth:
moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them
away as stubble. 25 To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal
to him? saith the Holy One. 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see
who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth
them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in
power, not one is lacking. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O
Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice due to me is
passed away from my God? 28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The
everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not,
neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding. 29 He giveth
power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall
utterly fall: 31 but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not
be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.
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