Isaiah 40

1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.Cross-references: Neh 8:10 · Ps 85:8 · Isa 3:10 · Isa 12:1 · Isa 35:3 · Isa 41:10 · +18 more

2“Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of Yahweh’s hand double for all her sins.”Cross-references: Gen 34:3 · 2Chr 30:22 · Job 42:10 · Ps 32:1 · Ps 102:13 · Song 2:11 · +29 more

3The voice of one who calls out, “Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.Cross-references: Ps 68:4 · Isa 11:15 · Isa 35:8 · Isa 43:19 · Isa 49:11 · Isa 57:14 · +9 moreExamined: The Prophecy Loom →

4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:8 · Job 40:11 · Ps 113:7 · Prov 2:15 · Isa 2:12 · Isa 42:11 · +7 more

5Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”Cross-references: Ps 72:19 · Ps 96:6 · Ps 102:16 · Isa 1:20 · Isa 6:3 · Isa 11:9 · +24 more

6The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” One said, “What shall I cry?” “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory is like the flower of the field.Cross-references: Job 14:2 · Ps 90:5 · Ps 92:7 · Ps 102:11 · Ps 103:15 · Isa 12:6 · +9 more

7The grass withers, the flower fades, because Yahweh’s breath blows on it. Surely the people are like grass.Cross-references: Job 41:21

8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God stands forever.”Cross-references: Ps 119:89 · Isa 46:10 · Isa 55:10 · Isa 59:21 · Zech 1:6 · Matt 5:18 · +6 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

9You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Don’t be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”Cross-references: Judg 9:7 · 1Sam 26:13 · 2Chr 13:4 · Ezra 1:1 · Isa 12:2 · Isa 25:9 · +19 more

10Behold, the Lord Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.Cross-references: Ps 2:8 · Ps 66:3 · Ps 110:1 · Ps 110:6 · Isa 9:6 · Isa 49:4 · +18 more

11He will feed his flock like a shepherd. He will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom. He will gently lead those who have their young.Cross-references: Gen 33:13 · Gen 49:24 · Ps 23:1 · Ps 78:71 · Ps 80:1 · Isa 42:3 · +16 more

12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off the sky with his span, and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?Cross-references: Job 11:7 · Job 28:25 · Job 38:4 · Ps 102:25 · Ps 104:2 · Prov 8:26 · +4 more

13Who has directed Yahweh’s Spirit, or has taught him as his counselor?Cross-references: Job 21:22 · Job 36:22 · Luke 10:22 · John 1:13 · Rom 11:34 · 1Cor 2:16 · +1 more

14Who did he take counsel with, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?Cross-references: Job 21:22 · 1Cor 12:4 · Col 2:3 · James 1:17

15Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance. Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.Cross-references: Gen 10:5 · Job 34:14 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 29:5 · Isa 40:22 · Isa 41:5 · +5 more

16Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.Cross-references: Ps 40:6 · Ps 50:9 · Mic 6:6 · Heb 10:5

17All the nations are like nothing before him. They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.Cross-references: Job 25:6 · Ps 62:9 · Isa 29:7 · Dan 4:34 · 2Cor 12:11

18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare to him?Cross-references: Ex 8:10 · Ex 9:14 · Ex 15:11 · Ex 20:4 · Deut 33:26 · 1Sam 2:2 · +14 more

19A workman has cast an image, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts silver chains for it.Cross-references: Ex 32:2 · Judg 17:4 · Ps 115:4 · Ps 135:15 · Ps 135:18 · Isa 2:20 · +8 more

20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.Cross-references: 1Sam 5:3 · Isa 2:8 · Isa 41:7 · Isa 44:13 · Isa 46:7 · Jer 10:3 · +1 more

21Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? Haven’t you been told from the beginning? Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?Cross-references: Ps 19:1 · Ps 50:6 · Ps 115:8 · Isa 27:11 · Isa 44:20 · Isa 46:8 · +7 more

22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,Cross-references: Num 13:33 · Job 9:8 · Job 22:14 · Job 36:29 · Job 37:18 · Job 38:4 · +16 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

23who brings princes to nothing, who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.Cross-references: Job 12:21 · Job 34:19 · Ps 76:12 · Ps 107:40 · Isa 19:13 · Isa 23:9 · +5 more

24They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.Cross-references: 2Sam 22:16 · 1Ki 21:21 · 2Ki 10:11 · Job 4:9 · Job 15:30 · Job 18:16 · +19 more

25“To whom then will you liken me? Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.Cross-references: Deut 4:15 · Deut 4:33 · Deut 5:8 · Isa 40:18

26Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their army by number. He calls them all by name. By the greatness of his might, and because he is strong in power, not one is lacking.Cross-references: Gen 2:1 · Deut 4:19 · Job 31:26 · Ps 8:3 · Ps 19:1 · Ps 89:11 · +12 more

27Why do you say, Jacob, and speak, Israel, “My way is hidden from Yahweh, and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?Cross-references: Job 27:2 · Isa 49:4 · Isa 49:14 · Luke 18:7

28Haven’t you known? Haven’t you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint. He isn’t weary. His understanding is unsearchable.Cross-references: Gen 21:33 · Deut 33:27 · 1Sam 2:10 · Ps 90:2 · Ps 138:8 · Ps 139:6 · +26 more

29He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.Cross-references: Gen 49:24 · Deut 33:25 · Ps 29:11 · Isa 41:10 · Isa 50:4 · Jer 31:25 · +5 more

30Even the youths faint and get weary, and the young men utterly fall;Cross-references: Ps 33:16 · Ps 34:10 · Ps 39:5 · Eccl 9:11 · Isa 9:17 · Isa 13:18 · +3 more

31but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.Cross-references: Ex 19:4 · Judg 16:28 · Job 17:9 · Job 33:24 · Ps 25:3 · Ps 25:5 · +29 more