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Isaiah - ch 40 v 1 - 20
- Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of suffering is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.
- The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
- Every valley shall be raised up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places a plain.
- And the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.
- A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? -- All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.
- The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
- The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God abideth for ever.
- O Zion, that bringest glad tidings, get thee up into a high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest glad tidings, lift up thy voice with strength: lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
- Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come with might, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.
- He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom; he will gently lead those that give suck.
- Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the heavens with his span, and grasped the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in a balance, and the hills in scales?
- Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, and, as his counsellor, hath taught him?
- With whom took he counsel, and who gave him intelligence, and instructed him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding?
- Behold, the nations are esteemed as a drop of the bucket, and as the fine dust on the scales; behold, he taketh up the isles as an atom.
- And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering.
- All the nations are as nothing before him; they are esteemed by him less than a cipher, and vanity.
- To whom then will ye liken ùGod? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?
- The workman casteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains for it.
- He that is impoverished, so that he hath no offering, chooseth a tree that doth not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilled workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved.
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