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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the LORD; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.” |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6A voice says, “Cry!” And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass, and all its beauty is like the flower of the field. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7The grass withers, the flower fades when the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people are grass. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Go on up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good news; lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good news; lift it up, fear not; say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!” |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Behold, the Lord GOD comes with might, and his arm rules for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He will tend his flock like a shepherd; he will gather the lambs in his arms; he will carry them in his bosom, and gently lead those that are with young. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are accounted as the dust on the scales; behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Lebanon would not suffice for fuel, nor are its beasts enough for a burnt offering. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17All the nations are as nothing before him, they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them like a tent to dwell in; |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23who brings princes to nothing, and makes the rulers of the earth as emptiness. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25To whom then will you compare me, that I should be like him? says the Holy One. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Lift up your eyes on high and see: who created these? He who brings out their host by number, calling them all by name; by the greatness of his might and because he is strong in power, not one is missing. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my right is disregarded by my God”? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint. |
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