Isaiah 40

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THE SIGH OF ELOHIM
You, sigh - sigh over my people, says your Elohim. 2 Word to the heart of Yeru Shalem and call out to her that her hostility is fulfilled - that her perversity is satisfied: for she takes double of the hand of Yah Veh for all her sins. 3 The voice of him crying out in the wilderness, You, face the way of Yah Veh, straighten in the plain a highway for our Elohim 4 - every valley becomes lifted and every mountain and hill lowered: and the crooked straightened and the ridges become a plain valley: 5 and the honor of Yah Veh is exposed and all flesh sees it together: for the mouth of Yah Veh words it. 6 A voice says, Call. And he says, What call I? All flesh is grass and all the mercy as the blossom of the field: 7 the grass withers; the blossom withers: because the spirit of Yah Veh blows thereon: surely the people is grass. 8 the grass withers; the blossom withers: but the word of our Elohim rises eternally. 9 O Siyon, who evangelizes, ascend into the high mountain; O Yeru Shalem, who evangelizes, lift your voice with force; lift; awe not: say to the cities of Yah Hudah, Behold your Elohim! 10 Behold, Adonay Yah Veh comes with strength and his arm reigns for him: behold, his hire is with him, and his deeds are at his face. 11 He tends his drove as a tender: he gathers the lambs with his arm, and bears them in his bosom, and gently guides the suckling. 12 Who measures the waters in his palm? And gauges the heavens with the span? And contains the dust of the earth in a tierce? And weighs the mountains in weights and the hills in a balance? 13 Who gauges the Spirit of Yah Veh? Or as his councilman makes known to him? 14 With whom counsels he and discerns him? And teaches him in the path of judgment? And teaches him knowledge? And makes known to him the way of discernment? 15 Behold, the goyim - as a drop of a pail; fabricated as the powder of the balance: behold, he lifts the islands as pulverized. 16 And neither is Lebanon sufficient to burn, nor the live beings sufficient for a holocaust. 17 All goyim are as naught in front of him; - fabricated to him as deceased and waste. 18 To whom then liken you El? Or what likeness line you up to him? 19 The engraver pours a sculptile; and the refiner overlays with gold and refines silver chains. 20 He who is so cut off that he has no exaltment chooses a tree that rots not; he seeks a wise engraver to prepare a sculptile that topples not. 21 Know you not? Hear you not? Were you not told from the beginning? Discerned you not from the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he who settles on the circle of the earth, and the settlers are as locusts who spread the heavens as a veil, - spreads them as a tent to settle in: 23 who gives the potentates to naught; who works the judges of the earth as waste. 24 Yes, they are not planted; yes, they are not seeded: yes, their stump roots not in the earth: and he also puffs on them, and they wither, and the storm bears them away as stubble. 25 To whom then liken you me, or equate? says the Holy One. 26 Lift your eyes on high, and see who created these; who brings out their host by number: - calls them all by names by the greatness of his strength - for he is strong in force; no man lacks. 27 Why, O Yaaqov, say you, and, O Yisra El, word you, My way is hid from Yah Veh; and from my Elohim my judgment passes over? 28 Know you not? Hear you not? that the eternal Elohim, Yah Veh, the Creator of the ends of the earth neither wearies nor belabors? There is no probing of his discernment. 29 He gives strength to the weary; and to them of no strength, he abounds might. 30 Even the lads weary and belabor, and in faltering, the youths falter: 31 but they who await Yah Veh, change their force; they ascend with pinions as eagles; they run, and belabor not; and they walk, and weary not.