Isaiah 40:27-41:4

New American Standard Bible

²⁷^(A)Why do you say, Jacob, and you assert, Israel,
“My way is ^(B)hidden from the Lord,
And the ^(C)justice due me ^[a]escapes the notice of ^(D)my God”?
²⁸^(E)Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The ^(F)Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired.
His understanding is ^(G)unsearchable.
²⁹He gives strength to the ^(H)weary,
And to the one who lacks might He ^(I)increases power.
³⁰Though ^(J)youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous ^(K)young men stumble badly,
³¹Yet those who ^[b]wait for the Lord
Will ^(L)gain new strength;
They will ^[c]^(M)mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary.

Israel Encouraged

41 “^(N)Listen to Me ^(O)in silence, you coastlands,
And let the peoples ^(P)gain new strength;
^(Q)Let them come forward, then let them speak;
^(R)Let’s come together for judgment.
²^(S)Who has stirred one from the east
Whom He ^(T)calls in righteousness to His ^[d]feet?
He ^(U)turns nations over to him
And subdues kings.
He makes them like ^(V)dust with his sword,
Like the wind-driven ^(W)chaff with his bow.
³He pursues them, passing on in safety,
By a way he had not been ^[e]traversing with his feet.
⁴^(X)Who has performed and accomplished it,
Summoning the generations from the beginning?
‘^(Y)I, the Lord, am the first, and with the last. ^(Z)I am He.’”