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Isaiah
Chapter 40
1 Comfort you, comfort you My people, said your 'Elohiym/Godhead.
2
Speak you comfortably to Jerusalem,
and
cry unto her,
that
her warfare is accomplished,
that
her 'punishment for sin'/iniquity {`avon} is pardoned . . .
for
she has received of Jehovah/God's hand
double
for all her sins.
3
The voice of him who cries in the desert . . .
{prophecy of John the Baptist/Herald}
Prepare
you the Way of Jehovah/God,
make
straight in the desert
a
highway for our 'Elohiym/Godhead.
{Note: See also Luke 1:2 - Prophetical Reference to John the Herald/Baptizer}
4-5~~Every
valley shall be lifted up,
and
every mountain and hill shall be made low.
And
the rough ground make a plain
and
rugged terrain a broad valley 5~~
in
order that the glory of Jehovah/God
shall
be revealed,
and
all mankind shall see it together.
For the mouth of Jehovah/God has spoken it.
{Note: See Revelation 16:20 - this ties to the 2nd Advent of Christ - Topographical Changes in the Earth.}
6 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.
7
The grass withers,
the
flower fades . . .
because
the spirit of Jehovah/God blows upon it . . .
surely
the people are grass.
8
The grass withers,
the
flower fades . . .
but
the Word of our 'Elohiym/Godhead
shall
stand forever.
9
O Zion, who brings good tidings,
get
you up into the high mountain.
O
Jerusalem, who brings good tidings,
lift
up your voice with strength.
Lift it up, be not afraid.
Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your 'Elohiym/Godhead!
10
Behold, the Lord/'Adonay God/Jehovah
will
come with strong hand,
and
His arm shall rule for Him.
Behold,
His reward is with Him,
and
His work before Him.
11 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 who are with young.
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?
13-14~~Who has measured the spirit of Jehovah/God?
Or as His counselor has caused Him to learn? 14~~
With whom has He taken counsel?
And
from whom has He received counsel
that
he should cause Him to understand?
And
who shall teach Him the path of integrity,
and
teach Him knowledge,
and
by intelligent words/'doctrinal communications' {dabar}
cause
Him to understand?
{Note: This is quoted by Paul in Romans 11:35.}
15
Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,
and
are counted as the small dust of the balance.
Behold, He takes up the isles as a very little thing.
16
And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
nor
the animals/beasts thereof
sufficient
for a burnt offering.
17
All nations before him are as nothing;
and
they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.
18 To whom then will you liken 'Elohiym/Godhead?
Or what likeness will you compare unto Him?
19
The workman melts a graven image,
and
the goldsmith spreads it over with gold,
and
castes silver chains.
20
He who is so impoverished
that
he has no oblation chooses a tree that will not rot.
He
seeks unto him a cunning workman
to
prepare a graven image,
that
shall not be moved.
21 Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
Has it not been told you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
22
It is He Who sits upon the circle of the earth,
and
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers;
that
stretches out the heavens as a curtain,
and
spreads them out as a tent to dwell in.
23 Who brings the princes to nothing.
He makes the judges of the earth as vanity/emptiness.
24 Yes, they shall not be planted.
Yes, they shall not be sown.
Yes, 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 you liken Me, or shall I be equal?
said
the Holy One.
26
Lift up your eyes on high,
and
behold Who has created these things,
Who
brings out their army/host by number.
He
calls them all by names
by
the greatness of His might,
for
that He is strong in power;
not
one fails.
27
Why say you, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel,
My
{evil} Way is hid from Jehovah/God,
and
my judgment is passed over from my 'Elohiym/Godhead?
28 Have you not known?
Have
you not heard . . .
that
the everlasting 'Elohiym/Godhead,
Jehovah/God,
the
Creator of the ends of the earth,
faints
not, neither is weary?
There is no searching of his understanding.
29
He gives power to the faint;
and
to those who have no might
He
increases strength.
30
Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
and
the young men shall utterly fall.
31
But those who wait upon Jehovah/God
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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