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
3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the
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
6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh
7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the
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
10 Behold, the Lord
11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry
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
14 With whom took he counsel, and
15 Behold, the nations
16 And Lebanon
17 All nations before him
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
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
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
27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the