''COMFORT ,yes,comfort My people!"says the LORD.

2 "Speak comfort to Jerusalem,and cry out to her,that her warfare is ended,that her iniquity pardoned;for she has recieved  from the LORD `s hand double for all her sins."

3 The voice of one crying in the wilderness:"Prepare the way of the LORD;make straight in the desert a highway for our GOD.

4 Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain anf hill brought low;the crooked places shall be made straight and rough places smooth;

5 The glory of the LORD shall be revealed,and all flesh shall see it togather;for the mouth of the LORD has spoken."

6 The voice said,"Cry out!"and he said,"What shall I cry? All the flesh is grass,and all its loveliness is kike the flower of the field.

7 The grass withers,the flower fades,because the breath of the LORD blows uopn it;surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers,the flower fades,but theword of our GOD stand forever."

9 O Zion,you who bring good tiddings,get up into the high mountain;O Jerusalem,you who bring good tidings,lift up your voice with strength,lift it up ,be not afraid;say to the cities of Judah,"Behold your GOD "

10 Behold,the LORD GOD shall come with a strong hand,and His arm shall rule for Him;behold ,His reward with Him,and His work before Him.

11 He will feed His flock like a shepherd;He will gather the lambs with his arm,and carry them his bossom,and gently lead those who are with young.

 12 Who has measured the waters inthe hollow of his hand,measured heaven with a span and calculated the dust of the earth in the measure.Weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

13 Who has directed the spirit of the LORD,or as His counselor has taught Him?

14 With whom did He take cousel,and who instructed Him,and taught Him in the path of justice?Who taught Him knowledge ,and showed Him the way of understanding?

15 Behold,the nations are as a drop in a bucket,and are counted as the small dust on the scales;look ,He lifts up the isles as a very little thing.

16 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn ,nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt offering.

17 All nations before Him are as nothing,and they are counted by Him less then nothing and worthless.

18 To whom then will you liken GOD?Or what likeness will you compare to Him?

19 The workman molds an image,the goldsmith overspreads it with gold,and the silversmith casts  silver chains.

20 Whoever is too improverishes for such a contribution chooses a tree that will not rot;He seek for himself a skillful workman to prepare a carved image that will not totter.

21  Have you not known?Have you not heard?Has it vnot been told you from the beginning?Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

22 It is He who sits above the circle of the earth,and its its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,who stretches out the hevens like a curtain,and spread them out like a tent to dwell in.

23 He brings the princes to nothing;He make the judge of the earth useless.

24 Scarcely shal they be planted,scarcely shall they be sown ,scarcely shall their stock take root in the earth,when He will also blow on them,and they will wither ,and  the whirlwind will take them away like stubble.

25 ''To whom then will you liken Me,or to whom shall I be equal?"says the Holy one.

26 Lift up your eyes on high,and see who has created these things,Who brings out their host by number;He cals them all by name,by the greatness of His might and the strenght of His power;not one is missing.

27 Why do you say,O Jacob,and speak O Israel:"My way is hidden from the LORD,and my just claim is passed over by my GOD "?

28  Have you not known ? Have you not heard ? The everlasting GOD,the LORD,the Creator of the ends of the earth,neither faints nor is weary.His nderstanding is unsearchable.

29 He gives power to the week,and to those who have no might He increases strength.

30 Even the youths shall faints and be weary,and young men shall utterly fal,

312 But those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strenght;they shall mount up with wings like eagles,they shall run and be weary,they shall walk  and not faint. Isaiah 40