Isaiah 40:1-8 ▼

1 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your? God.

2 “Speak upon the heart of Jerusalem, and call out to her, that her service has been fulfilled, that her iniquity has been pardoned, for she has received from the hand of YHWH double for all her sins.”

3 The voice of one calling in the wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, make straight in the desert plain a highway for our God.

4 Every valley will be lifted up, and every mountain and hill brought low; and the crooked will become straight, and the rugged a plain;

5 and the glory of YHWH will be revealed, and all flesh together will see it. For the mouth of YHWH has spoken.”

6 The voice of one saying: “Call out!” And he said, “What shall I call out?” “All flesh is grass, and all its loveliness is like the flower of the field.

7 The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of YHWH blows on it. Surely the people are grass.

8 The grass withers, the flower fades, and the word of our God stands forever.”