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Isaiah Chapter 40

Noyes
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ISAIAH

Isaiah 40

1Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, Saith your God.
2 Corinthians 1:4, 2 Corinthians 1:4, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:12, Isaiah 51:3
2Speak ye encouragement to Jerusalem, and declare to her, That her hard service is ended; That her iniquity is expiated; That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.
Zechariah 9:12, Zechariah 9:12, Isaiah 61:7, Isaiah 61:7, Hosea 2:14
3A voice crieth: "Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
Malachi 3:1, Malachi 3:1, Mark 1:2, Mark 1:5, Mark 1:2
4Every valley shall be exalted, And every mountain and hill be made low; The crooked shall become straight, And the rough places plain.
Luke 3:5, Luke 3:5, Ezekiel 21:26, Ezekiel 21:26, Luke 18:14
5For the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, And all flesh shall see it together; For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it!"
Habakkuk 2:14, Habakkuk 2:14, Joel 2:28, Joel 2:28, Isaiah 52:10
6A voice said, Proclaim! And I said, What shall I proclaim? All flesh is grass, And all its comeliness as the flower of the field.
Psalms 103:15, Psalms 103:16, 1 Peter 1:24, 1 Peter 1:25, Psalms 103:15
7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, When the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it. Truly the people is grass.
Job 41:21, Job 41:21
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, But the word of our God shall stand forever.
Mark 13:31, Mark 13:31, 1 Peter 1:25, 1 Peter 1:25, Matthew 24:35
9Get thee up on the high mountain, O thou that bringest glad tidings to Zion; Lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest glad tidings to Jerusalem; Lift it up; be not afraid; Say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
Isaiah 52:7, Isaiah 52:8, Isaiah 12:2, Isaiah 52:7, Isaiah 52:8
10Behold, the Lord Jehovah shall come with might, And his arm shall rule for him; Behold, his reward is with him, And his recompense before him.
Revelation 22:12, Revelation 22:12, Isaiah 62:11, Isaiah 62:11, Revelation 17:14
11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd; He shall gather up the lambs in his arms, And carry them in his bosom, And gently lead the nursing ewes.
Revelation 7:17, Micah 5:4, Revelation 7:17, Micah 5:4, Psalms 23:1
12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, And meted out the heavens with his span, And gathered the dust of the earth into a measure, And weighed the mountains in scales, And the hills in a balance?
Proverbs 30:4, Proverbs 30:4, Hebrews 1:10, Hebrews 1:12, Hebrews 1:10
13Who hath searched out the spirit of Jehovah, Or, being his counsellor, hath taught him?
1 Corinthians 2:16, 1 Corinthians 2:16, Romans 11:34, Romans 11:34, Job 36:22
14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, And taught him the path of justice, And taught him knowledge, And showed him the way of understanding?
Job 21:22, Job 21:22, Colossians 2:3, Colossians 2:3, James 1:17
15Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, And are accounted as the small dust of the balance; Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing,
Isaiah 40:22, Jeremiah 10:10, Isaiah 40:22, Jeremiah 10:10, Isaiah 29:5
16And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, Nor its beasts for a burnt-offering.
Micah 6:6, Micah 6:7, Micah 6:6, Micah 6:7, Psalms 40:6
17All the nations are as nothing before him; They are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
Psalms 62:9, Psalms 62:9, Daniel 4:34, Daniel 4:35, Daniel 4:34
18To whom then will ye liken God, And what likeness will ye compare unto him?
Isaiah 46:5, Isaiah 46:5, 1 Samuel 2:2, 1 Samuel 2:2, Exodus 15:11
19The workman casteth an image, And the smith overlayeth it with gold, And casteth for it silver chains.
Jeremiah 10:9, Jeremiah 10:9, Isaiah 46:6, Isaiah 46:7, Judges 17:4
20He that is too poor to make an oblation Chooseth a piece of wood that will not rot; He seeketh for himself a skilful artificer, To prepare an image that shall not be moved.
Isaiah 41:7, Isaiah 46:7, Jeremiah 10:3, Jeremiah 10:4, Isaiah 41:7
21Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Hath it not been declared to you from the beginning? Have ye not considered the foundations of the earth?
Acts 14:17, Psalms 50:6, Isaiah 46:8, Isaiah 48:13, Acts 14:17
22It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, And the inhabitants are to him as grasshoppers; That stretcheth out the heavens as a canopy, And spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;
Proverbs 8:27, Proverbs 8:27, Psalms 104:2, Psalms 104:2, Isaiah 42:5
23That bringeth princes to nothing, And reduceth the rulers of the earth to vanity.
Job 12:21, Psalms 107:40, Job 12:21, Psalms 107:40, Jeremiah 25:18
24Yea, scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, Scarcely hath their stem taken root in the ground, When He bloweth upon them and they wither, And the whirlwind beareth them away like stubble.
Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 41:16, Isaiah 17:13, Jeremiah 23:19, Isaiah 17:13
25To whom then will ye liken me, And to whom shall I be compared? Saith the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:18, Isaiah 40:18, Deuteronomy 4:33, Deuteronomy 4:33, Deuteronomy 4:15
26Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and behold! Who hath created these? He draweth forth their host by number, He calleth them all by name; Through the greatness of his strength and the mightiness of his power, Not one of them faileth to appear.
Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:19, Jeremiah 32:17, Jeremiah 32:19, Colossians 1:16
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, "My way is hidden from Jehovah, My cause passeth by before my God"?
Isaiah 49:4, Luke 18:7, Luke 18:8, Isaiah 49:4, Luke 18:7
28Do ye not know? Have ye not heard? Jehovah is an everlasting God, The creator of the ends of the earth; He fainteth not, nor is he weary; His understanding is unsearchable.
Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34, Romans 11:33, Romans 11:34, Psalms 147:5
29He giveth power to the faint; To the feeble abundant strength.
Isaiah 41:10, Isaiah 41:10, 2 Corinthians 12:9, 2 Corinthians 12:10, Philippians 4:13
30The youths shall faint and be weary, And the young warriors shall utterly fall.
Amos 2:14, Amos 2:14, Psalms 34:10, Psalms 34:10, Psalms 33:16
31But they that trust in Jehovah shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles; They shall run and not be weary; They shall walk and not faint.
Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, Lamentations 3:25, Lamentations 3:26, 2 Corinthians 4:16

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