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New Testament
Isaiah 40
The Second Book of Isaiah
The Lord reveals himself as the Savior in the deliverance from Babylon
Overview of the Lord's Plan
401Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call out to her.
Her guilt is fully paid for.
Yes, she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
3A voice is calling out:
In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord.
4Every valley will be raised up,
and every mountain and hill will be made low.
The rugged ground will become level,
and the rough places will become a plain.
5Then the glory of the Lord will be revealed,
and all flesh together will see it.
Yes, the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
6A voice was saying, “Cry out!”
And I said, “What shall I cry out?”
All flesh is grass,
7Grass withers, flowers fade,
Yes, the people are grass.
8Grass withers, flowers fade,
but the Word of our God endures forever.
9Get up on a high mountain,
O Zion, you herald of good news.
Lift up your voice with strength,
O Jerusalem, you herald of good news.
Lift it up! Do not be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah,
“Here is your God!”
10Look, God the Lord will come with strength,
and his arm is ruling for him.
Look, his reward is with him.
The result of his work is in front of him.
11Like a shepherd he will care for his flock.
With his arm he will gather the lambs.
He will lift them up on his lap.
He will gently lead the nursing mothers.
The Lord Is Beyond Compare
12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand?
Who marked off the heavens with the width of his hand?
Who scooped up the dust of the earth with a measuring cup?
Who weighed the mountains with a balance
and the hills with scales?
13Who has directed the Spirit of the Lord?
Who can teach him anything or serve as his advisor?
14Who was his advisor to give him insight?
Who taught him the path of justice?
Who taught him knowledge?
Who showed him the way to complete understanding?
15Indeed, nations are like a drop in a bucket,
and they are treated like powder on a scale.
Look, he lifts up islands like dust!
16Not even the forests of Lebanon could provide enough wood to burn,
and its animals are not enough for a whole burnt offering.
17All the nations are nothing to him.
By him they are regarded as worthless,
as less than nothing.
18So to whom will you compare God?
What image can you compare to him?
19A craftsman casts the idol,
and a goldsmith overlays it with gold.
He forges silver chains for it.
wood that will not rot.
He looks for a skillful craftsman
to erect an idol that will not fall over.
21Do you not know? Have you not heard?
Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood it from the founding of the earth?
22He is the one who sits above the circle of the earth.
To him its inhabitants are like grasshoppers.
He stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and he spreads them out like a tent to live in.
23He is the one who reduces dignitaries to nothing.
He makes the judges of the world useless.
24They have hardly been planted.
They have hardly been sown.
Their stem has hardly taken root in the earth.
Then he blows on them, and they dry up.
A driving storm carries them away like chaff.
25To whom can you compare me as if we were equals?
says the Holy One.
26Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
and see who created these things.
See who brings out their army in great number
and calls them all by name.
Because of his great strength and mighty power,
not one of them is missing.
27Why do you speak, O Jacob?
O Israel, why do you say,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and justice for me is ignored by my God”?
28Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the eternal God.
He is the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired, and he will not become weary.
No one can find a limit to his understanding.
29He is the one who gives strength to the weak,
and he increases the strength of those who lack power.
30Young men grow tired and become weary.
Even strong men stumble and fall.
31But those who wait for the Lord will receive new strength.
They will lift up their wings and soar like eagles.
They will run and not become weary.
They will walk and not become tired.