Isaiah 40 Comfort you, comfort you My people!saying is your Elohim."

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Comfort you, comfort you My people!saying is your Elohim." ² Speak you to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, for fulfilled is her enlistment, for run out is her depravity, for she takes from the hand of Yahweh a shelter from all her sins." ³ The voice of one calling:"In the wilderness, surface the way of Yahweh! And straighten, in the gorge, a highway for our Elohim!" ⁴ Every ravine shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be lowered. And all the crooked shall come to be straight, and the knobs a valley." ⁵ And revealed is the glory of Yahweh, and all flesh sees the salvation of Elohim.For the mouth of Yahweh speaks." ⁶ A voice says, "Call!And I say, "What shall I call?All flesh is grass, and all its glory is as the blossom of the field." ⁷ Dry is the grass; decayed is the blossom, for the spirit of Yahweh is reversed in it. Surely, grass are the people." ⁸ Dry is the grass; decayed is the blossom. Yet the word of our Elohim shall be confirmed for the eon." ⁹ On a mountain lofty ascend; go you, tidings-bearer, to Zion! Raise high your voice with vigor, tidings-bearer, to Jerusalem! Raise it high! You must not fear! Say to the cities of Judah, "Behold your Elohim!" ¹⁰ Behold! My Lord Yahweh with steadfastness is coming. And His arm is ruling for Him. Behold! His hire is with Him. And His wage is before Him. ¹¹ As a shepherd He is grazing His drove, and in His arm He is cuddling the lambkins, and in His bosom He is carrying them. The pregnant He is comforting. The unweaned He is conducting." ¹² Who measures the waters in the hollow of His hand, and regulates the heavens with a span? And Who contains, in a peck measure, the soil of all the earth, and weighs, with a balance, the mountains, and the hills with scales? ¹³ Who regulates the spirit of Yahweh, and which man is informing Him of His counsel? ¹⁴ Whom does He consult? And who is explaining things to Him, and is teaching Him, in judgment's path? And who is teaching Him knowledge, and the way of understanding is informing Him? Or, who has given to Him first and will be repaid by Him? ¹⁵ Behold! All nations are as a drop from a bucket, and as sky dust of the scales are accounted. Behold! The coastlands, as the thinnest gauze, is He transporting; and as spittle are they reckoned." ¹⁶ And Lebanon is not sufficient to consume, and all its life is not sufficient for an ascent approach." ¹⁷ And all the nations are as nothing in front of Him. Limited and a chaos are they accounted by Him. ¹⁸ Then to whom will you liken El? And what likeness will you arrange for Him? ¹⁹ A carving? That which is made, or is cast by an artificer, and a refiner with gold is stamping it, and chains of silver he is refining, a likeness is he making it." ²⁰ A provident one will choose a heave approach of wood that will not rot. He will seek for himself a wise artificer, to prepare a carving with no blemish." ²¹ Are you not knowing? Are you not hearing? Was it not told to you from the beginning? Do you not understood from the foundations of the earth? ²² Who is sitting over the circle of the earth, and its dwellers are as grasshoppers? Who is stretching out as a thin gauze the heavens, and bagging them out as a tent to dwell in? ²³ Who is making chancellors to be nothing? The judges of the earth He makes as chaos. ²⁴ Indeed, they wilt when planted; indeed, they wilt when sown; indeed, a root will wilt in the earth as their set-slip. And, moreover, a breeze blows on them, and they are drying. And a tempest, as straw, is bearing them away." ²⁵ Then to whom will you liken Me, and whose equal will I be?saying is the Holy One." ²⁶ Lift your eyes to the height and see; Who created all these? Who is bringing forth their host by number? He is calling to all of them by name, because of vast virility and resolute vigor, and not one of them is deranged." ²⁷ Why are you saying, Jacob; and why are you speaking, Israel:"My way is concealed from Yahweh, and my judgment is passing from my Elohim"? ²⁸ Do you not know? Should you not hear? The Elohim eonian is Yahweh, Creator of the ends of the earth. He is not fainting, nor is He wearying. And there is no investigating of His understanding." ²⁹ He is giving vigor to the faint, and to those with no virility, their staunchness He is increasing." ³⁰ And the youths will be faint and weary, and the choice men will stumble, yea stumble." ³¹ Yet those stretching toward Yahweh will vary their vigor, and they shall ascend on pinions as vultures. They shall run, and not be weary. They shall go, and not faint."