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Isaiah 40
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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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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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:
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The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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?
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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.
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The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.
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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.
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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?
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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:
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Chapter Study & Analysis
Overview
Isaiah 40 - Comfort My People: The prologue to the second half of Isaiah. A voice cries in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord. It exalts God's incomparable majesty against the idols and concludes with the promise of strength for the weary.
THEOLOGICAL CONTEXT
1. Consolation (Nachamu): "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people" (v. 1). God's heart is to restore His people after judgment.2. The Incomparable Creator: God "sitteth upon the circle of the earth" (v. 22). He is totally transcendent over nations and idols.
3. Word Endurance: "The word of our God shall stand for ever" (v. 8) contrasted with the "grass" of human life.
4. The Good Shepherd: God gathers the lambs with His arm and carries them in His bosom (v. 11).
Practical Lessons
PRACTICAL LESSONS
1. Waiting on the Lord: Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength (v. 31). Waiting is active trust, not passive idleness.
2. The Antidote to Fear: Looking at the "stars" and the "circle of the earth" to remember how large our God is compared to our problems.
PRACTICAL LESSONS
1. Waiting on the Lord: Those that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength (v. 31). Waiting is active trust, not passive idleness.2. The Antidote to Fear: Looking at the "stars" and the "circle of the earth" to remember how large our God is compared to our problems.