Isaiah 40

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