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| Isaiah 40:1 |
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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your
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| Isaiah 40:2 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:3 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:4 |
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Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain
and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough
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| Isaiah 40:5 |
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and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed,
and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.
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| Isaiah 40:6 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:7 |
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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because
the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass. |
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| Isaiah 40:8 |
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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but
the word of our God shall stand forever. |
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| Isaiah 40:9 |
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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! |
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| Isaiah 40:10 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:11 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:12 |
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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?
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| Isaiah 40:13 |
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Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or
being his counsellor hath taught him? |
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| Isaiah 40:14 |
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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? |
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| Isaiah 40:15 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:16 |
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And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the
beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering. |
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| Isaiah 40:17 |
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All the nations are as nothing before him; they
are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. |
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| Isaiah 40:18 |
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To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness
will ye compare unto him? |
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| Isaiah 40:19 |
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The image, a workman hath cast it, and the goldsmith
overlayeth it with gold, and casteth for it silver chains. |
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| Isaiah 40:20 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:21 |
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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? |
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| Isaiah 40:22 |
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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; |
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| Isaiah 40:23 |
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that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh
the judges of the earth as vanity. |
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| Isaiah 40:24 |
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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.
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| Isaiah 40:25 |
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To whom then will ye liken me, that I should
be equal to him? saith the Holy One. |
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| Isaiah 40:26 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:27 |
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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?
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| Isaiah 40:28 |
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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. |
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| Isaiah 40:29 |
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He giveth power to the faint; and to him that
hath no might he increaseth strength. |
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| Isaiah 40:30 |
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Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and
the young men shall utterly fall: |
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| Isaiah 40:31 |
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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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