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== Yeshayahu (Book of Isaiah), Chapter 40 ==

<named id="1"/>1 Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your G-d.

<named id="2"/>2 Bid Jerusalem take heart, and proclaim unto her, that her time of service is accomplished, that her guilt is paid off; that she hath received of HaShem'S hand double for all her sins.

<named id="3"/>3 Hark! one calleth: 'Clear ye in the wilderness the way of HaShem, make plain in the desert a highway for our G-d.

<named id="4"/>4 Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the rugged shall be made level, and the rough places a plain;

<named id="5"/>5 And the glory of HaShem shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of HaShem hath spoken it.'

<named id="6"/>6 Hark! one saith: 'Proclaim!' And he saith: 'What shall I proclaim?' 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field;

<named id="7"/>7 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; because the breath of HaShem bloweth upon it--surely the people is grass.

<named id="8"/>8 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our G-d shall stand for ever.'

<named id="9"/>9 O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up into the high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah: 'Behold your G-d!'

<named id="10"/>10 Behold, the L-rd GOD will come as a Mighty One, and His arm will rule for Him; behold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.

<named id="11"/>11 Even as a shepherd that feedeth his flock, that gathereth the lambs in his arm, and carrieth them in his bosom, and gently leadeth those that give suck.

<named id="12"/>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?

<named id="13"/>13 Who hath meted out the spirit of HaShem? Or who was His counsellor that he might instruct Him?

<named id="14"/>14 With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of right, and taught Him knowledge, and made Him to know the way of discernment?

<named id="15"/>15 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold the isles are as a mote in weight.

<named id="16"/>16 And Lebanon is not sufficient fuel, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for burnt-offerings.

<named id="17"/>17 All the nations are as nothing before Him; they are accounted by Him as things of nought, and vanity.

<named id="18"/>18 To whom then will ye liken G-d? Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him?

<named id="19"/>19 The image perchance, which the craftsman hath melted, and the goldsmith spread over with gold, the silversmith casting silver chains?

<named id="20"/>20 A holm-oak is set apart, he chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning craftsman to set up an image, that shall not be moved.

<named id="21"/>21 Know ye not? hear ye not? Hath it not been told you from the beginning? Have ye not understood the foundations of the earth?

<named id="22"/>22 It is He that sitteth above 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;

<named id="23"/>23 That bringeth princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as a thing of nought.

<named id="24"/>24 Scarce are they planted, scarce are they sown, scarce hath their stock taken root in the earth; when He bloweth upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.

<named id="25"/>25 To whom then will ye liken Me, that I should be equal? saith the Holy One.

<named id="26"/>26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see: who hath created these? He that bringeth out their host by number, He calleth them all by name; by the greatness of His might, and for that He is strong in power, not one faileth.

<named id="27"/>27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: 'My way is hid from HaShem, and my right is passed over from my G-d'?

<named id="28"/>28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard that the everlasting G-d, HaShem, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? His discernment is past searching out.

<named id="29"/>29 He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might He increaseth strength.

<named id="30"/>30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall;

<named id="31"/>31 But they that wait for HaShem shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

== See also ==
* [[Yeshayahu 39|Previous Chapter]]
* [[Yeshayahu 40 Commentaries]]
* [[Yeshayahu 41|Next Chapter]]

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