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 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.**

 3 ¶ The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

 4 Every 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:**

 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see *it* together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken *it*.

 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh *is* grass, and all the goodliness thereof *is* as the flower of the field:

 7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people *is* grass.

 8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.

 9 ¶ O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift *it* up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!**

 10 Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong *hand*, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward *is* with him, and his work before him.**

 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry *them* in his bosom, *and* shall gently lead those that are with young.*

 12 ¶ 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?*

 13 Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or *being* his counsellor hath taught him?*

 14 With whom took he counsel, and *who* instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?**

 15 Behold, the nations *are* 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.

 16 And Lebanon *is* not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering.

 17 All nations before him *are* as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.

 18 ¶ To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?

 19 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

 20 He that *is* so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree *that* will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, *that* shall not be moved.*

 21 Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

 22 *It is* he that sitteth upon 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:*

 23 That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, 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.

 25 To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.

 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these *things*, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that *he is* strong in power; not one faileth.

 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

 28 ¶ Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, *that* the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? *there is* no searching of his understanding.

 29 He giveth power to the faint; and to *them that have* no might he increaseth strength.

 30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

 31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew *their* strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; *and* they shall walk, and not faint.*
 
[Isaiah 39](/study/isaiah/39) [Isaiah 41](/study/isaiah/41)

## Commentary

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**comfort:** [Isaiah 3:10](/kjv/isaiah/3/10), [Isaiah 35:3](/kjv/isaiah/35/3), [Isaiah 35:4](/kjv/isaiah/35/4), [Isaiah 41:10-14](/kjv/isaiah/41/10-14), [Isaiah 41:27](/kjv/isaiah/41/27), [Isaiah 49:13-16](/kjv/isaiah/49/13-16), [Isaiah 50:10](/kjv/isaiah/50/10), [Isaiah 51:3](/kjv/isaiah/51/3), [Isaiah 51:12](/kjv/isaiah/51/12), [Isaiah 57:15-19](/kjv/isaiah/57/15-19), [Isaiah 60:1-22](/kjv/isaiah/60/1-22), [Isaiah 61:1-3](/kjv/isaiah/61/1-3), [Isaiah 62:11](/kjv/isaiah/62/11), [Isaiah 62:12](/kjv/isaiah/62/12), [Isaiah 65:13](/kjv/isaiah/65/13), [Isaiah 65:14](/kjv/isaiah/65/14), [Isaiah 66:10-14](/kjv/isaiah/66/10-14), [Nehemiah 8:10](/kjv/nehemiah/8/10), [Psalms 85:8](/kjv/psalms/85/8), [Jeremiah 31:10-14](/kjv/jeremiah/31/10-14), [Zephaniah 3:14-17](/kjv/zephaniah/3/14-17), [Zechariah 1:13](/kjv/zechariah/1/13), [Zechariah 9:9](/kjv/zechariah/9/9), [2 Corinthians 1:4](/kjv/2-corinthians/1/4), [1 Thessalonians 4:18](/kjv/1-thessalonians/4/18), [Hebrews 6:17](/kjv/hebrews/6/17), [Hebrews 6:18](/kjv/hebrews/6/18) 

**Reciprocal:** [Genesis 41:52](/kjv/genesis/41/52) - Ephraim [Genesis 45:5](/kjv/genesis/45/5) - be not grieved [2 Samuel 19:7](/kjv/2-samuel/19/7) - comfortably unto thy [2 Samuel 24:16](/kjv/2-samuel/24/16) - It is enough [2 Chronicles 30:22](/kjv/2-chronicles/30/22) - comfortably unto all [Psalms 90:15](/kjv/psalms/90/15) - Make [Isaiah 12:1](/kjv/isaiah/12/1) - though [Isaiah 14:1](/kjv/isaiah/14/1) - the Lord [Isaiah 30:19](/kjv/isaiah/30/19) - thou shalt [Isaiah 32:1](/kjv/isaiah/32/1) - king [Jeremiah 29:11](/kjv/jeremiah/29/11) - thoughts [Ezekiel 14:22](/kjv/ezekiel/14/22) - therein [Ezekiel 16:42](/kjv/ezekiel/16/42) - and will [Hosea 2:14](/kjv/hosea/2/14) - and speak [Zephaniah 3:15](/kjv/zephaniah/3/15) - hath taken [Zechariah 1:14](/kjv/zechariah/1/14) - Cry [Zechariah 1:17](/kjv/zechariah/1/17) - the Lord shall [Matthew 9:2](/kjv/matthew/9/2) - be [Luke 2:25](/kjv/luke/2/25) - waiting [Luke 24:44](/kjv/luke/24/44) - in the prophets [John 12:46](/kjv/john/12/46) - am [Acts 20:12](/kjv/acts/20/12) - were [Romans 4:7](/kjv/romans/4/7) - *General* [Colossians 2:2](/kjv/colossians/2/2) - their [Colossians 4:8](/kjv/colossians/4/8) - and comfort [1 Thessalonians 5:14](/kjv/1-thessalonians/5/14) - comfort

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