Isaiah 40 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^40:1 Comfort⁺, comfort⁺ my people, says your⁺ God.
^40:2 Speak⁺ comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry 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.
^40:3 The voice of one who cries, Prepare⁺ in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
^40:4 Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the uneven will be made level, and the rough places a plain:
^40:5 and the glory of Yahweh will be revealed, and all flesh will see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.
^40:6 The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field.
^40:7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yahweh blows on it; surely the people are grass.
^40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God will stand forever.
^40:9 O you who tell good news to Zion, get yourself up on a high mountain; O 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, Look, your⁺ God!
^40:10 Look, the Sovereign Yahweh will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Look, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.
^40:11 Like a shepherd, he will shepherd his flock; he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom; [and] will gently lead those that have their young.
^40:12 Who has 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?
^40:13 Who has directed the Spirit of Yahweh, or being his counselor has taught him?
^40:14 With whom did he take counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?
^40:15 Look, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: look, he takes up the isles as a very little thing.
^40:16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering.
^40:17 All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
^40:18 To whom then will you⁺ liken God? Or what likeness will you⁺ compare to him?
^40:19 The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
^40:20 He who is too impoverished for [such] an oblation chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up a graven image, that will not be moved.
^40:21 Have you⁺ not known? Have you⁺ not heard? Has it not been told to you⁺ from the beginning? Have you⁺ not understood from the foundations of the earth?
^40:22 [It is] he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in;
^40:23 who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity.
^40:24 Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
^40:25 To whom then will you⁺ liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One.
^40:26 Lift up your⁺ eyes on high, and see who has created these, that brings out their host by number; he calls them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking.
^40:27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hid from Yahweh, and the justice [due] to me has passed away from my God?
^40:28 Haven't you known? Haven't you heard? The everlasting God, Yahweh, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding.
^40:29 He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength.
^40:30 Even the youths will faint and be weary, and the young men will completely fall:
^40:31 but those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings as eagles; they will run, and not be weary; they will walk, and not faint.

Isaiah, Chapter 40