| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | New American Standard Bible 1995 |
| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1"Comfort, O comfort My people," says your God. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Speak kindly to Jerusalem; And call out to her, that her warfare has ended, That her iniquity has been removed, That she has received of the LORD'S hand Double for all her sins." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3A voice is calling, "Clear the way for the LORD in the wilderness; Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4"Let every valley be lifted up, And every mountain and hill be made low; And let the rough ground become a plain, And the rugged terrain a broad valley; |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5Then the glory of the LORD will be revealed, And all flesh will see it together; For the mouth of the LORD has spoken." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6A voice says, "Call out." Then he answered, "What shall I call out?" All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness 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 upon 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 stands forever. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Get yourself up on a high mountain, O Zion, bearer of good news, Lift up your voice mightily, O Jerusalem, bearer of good news; Lift it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, "Here is your God!" |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Behold, the Lord GOD will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him And His recompense before Him. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs And carry them in His bosom; He will gently lead the nursing ewes. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of His hand, And marked off the heavens by the span, And calculated the dust of the earth by the measure, And weighed the mountains in a balance And the hills in a pair of scales? |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, Or as His counselor has informed Him? |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge And informed Him of the way of understanding? |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, And are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, Nor 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 regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18To whom then will you liken God? Or what likeness will you compare with Him? |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19As for the idol, a craftsman casts it, A goldsmith plates it with gold, And a silversmith fashions chains of silver. |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20He who is too impoverished for such an offering Selects a tree that does not rot; He seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman To prepare an idol that will not totter. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to 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 out like a tent to dwell in. |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23He it is who reduces rulers to nothing, Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Scarcely have they been planted, Scarcely have they been sown, Scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, But He merely blows on them, and they wither, And the storm carries them away like stubble. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25"To whom then will you liken Me That I would be his equal?" says the Holy One. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing. |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27Why do you say, O Jacob, and assert, O Israel, "My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God "? |
| 28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable. |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29He gives strength to the weary, And to him who lacks might He increases power. |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30Though youths grow weary and tired, And vigorous young men stumble badly, |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31Yet those who wait for the LORD Will gain new strength; They will mount up with wings like eagles, They will run and not get tired, They will walk and not become weary. |
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