Chronological
40 “Comfort! Comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, so that her warfare is accomplished, and that her iniquity is pardoned. For she has received double from the LORD’s Hand for all her sins.”
3 A voice cries in the wilderness, “Prepare the way of the LORD! Make straight a path for our God in the desert!
4 “Every valley shall be exalted and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall be straight and the rough places level.
5 “And the Glory of the LORD shall be revealed. And all flesh shall see it together. For the Mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”
6 A voice said, “Cry!” And he said, “What shall I cry? All flesh is grass and all its beauty as the flowers of the field.
7 “The grass withers, the flower fades, because the Spirit of the LORD blows upon it. Surely, the people are grass.
8 “The grass withers, the flower fades, but the Word of our God shall stand forever.”
9 O Zion, that brings good tidings, get yourself up into the high mountain. O Jerusalem, that brings good tidings, lift up your voice with strength! Lift it up! Do not be afraid! Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold your God!”
10 Behold, the LORD God will come with power. And His Arm shall rule for Him. Behold, His reward is with Him, and His work before Him.
11 He shall feed His flock like a shepherd. He shall gather the lambs with His Arm and carry them in His Bosom and shall guide those with young.
12 Who has measured the waters in his fist, and counted heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the Earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains on a scale, and the hills in a balance?
13 Who has instructed the Spirit of the LORD, or was His counselor, or taught Him?
14 Of whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him and taught Him in the way of judgment, or taught Him knowledge, and showed to Him the way of understanding?
15 Behold, the nations are as a drop in a bucket, and are counted as the dust of the balance. Behold, He takes away the isles as a little dust.
16 And Lebanon is not sufficient for fire, nor its beasts sufficient for a Burnt Offering.
17 All nations are as nothing before Him. And they are counted to Him less than nothing and vanity.
18 To whom, then, will you liken God? Or what likeness will you set up for Him?
19 The workman melts an image, or the goldsmith beats it out in gold, or the silversmith in silver plates.
20 Do not the poor choose a tree that will not rot for an oblation? He also seeks a cunning workman to prepare an image that shall not be shaken.
21 Know you nothing? Have you not heard it? Has it not been told to you from the beginning? Have you not understood it from the foundation of the Earth?
22 He sits upon the circle of the Earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers. He stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent in which to dwell.
23 He brings the princes to nothing, makes the judges of the Earth as vanity,
24 as though they were not planted, as though they were not sown, as though their stock took no root in the Earth. For He but blew upon them and they withered. And the whirlwind will take them away as stubble.
25 “To whom now will you liken Me, that I should be like?” says the Holy One.
26 Lift up your eyes on high and behold who has created these things, and brings out their armies by number, and calls them all by names. By the greatness of His power and mighty strength nothing fails.
27 Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD. And my judgment is passed over by my God?”
28 Do you not know? Have you not heard that the everlasting God, the LORD, has created the ends of the Earth? He neither faints nor is weary. There is no searching of His understanding.
29 He gives strength to him who faints. And to him who has no strength, he increases power.
30 Even the youth shall faint and be weary. And the young men shall stumble and fall.
31 But those who wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength. They shall ascend with wings, as the eagles. They shall run and not be weary. And they shall walk and not faint.
41 “Keep silent before me, O islands, and let the people renew strength. Let them come near. And let them speak. Let us come together into judgment.
2 “Who raised up justice from the East and called him to His Foot, gave the nations before him and subdued the kings? He gave them as dust to his sword, as scattered stubble to his bow.
3 “He pursued them and passed safely by the way that he had not gone with his feet.
4 “Who has wrought and done it? He Who calls the generations from the beginning. I, the LORD, am the first. And with the last I am the same.
5 “The isles saw it and feared. The ends of the Earth were afraid, drew near and came.
6 “Every man helped his neighbor, and said to his brother, ‘Be strong.’
7 “So the workman comforted the refiner (he who struck with the hammer, and who struck the anvil) saying, ‘It is ready for soldering.’ And he fastened it with nails, so that it would not be moved.
8 “But you, Israel, are My servant, you, Jacob, whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, My friend.
9 “For I have taken you from the ends of the Earth and called you before its chief and said to you, ‘You are My servant. I have chosen you and not cast you away.
10 ‘Fear not. For I am with you. Do not be afraid. For I am your God. I will strengthen you, and help you, and will sustain you with the right hand of My justice.’
11 “Behold, all those who provoke you shall be ashamed and confounded. They shall be as nothing. And those who strive with you shall perish.
12 “You shall seek them and shall not find them. The men of your strife, they shall be as nothing, and the men who war against you as a non-existent thing.
13 “For I, the LORD your God, will hold your right hand, saying to you, ‘Do not fear. I will help you.
14 ‘Do not fear, worm Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you,’ says the LORD, and your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 “Behold, I will make you a thresher, and a new threshing sled having teeth. You shall thresh the mountains and bring them to powder, and shall make the hills as chaff.
16 “You shall fan them and the wind shall carry them away and the whirlwind shall scatter them. And you shall rejoice in the LORD, shall glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 “When the poor and the needy seek water and there is none (their tongue fails for thirst), I the LORD will hear them. I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.
18 “I will open rivers on the tops of the hills, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness as a pool of water, and the wasteland as springs of water.
19 “I will set the cedar in the wilderness, the Shittah, and the myrtle tree, and the pine tree. I will set the fir tree in the wilderness, the elm and the box tree, together.
20 “Therefore, let them see and know. And let them consider and understand together that the Hand of the LORD has done this. And the Holy One of Israel has created it.
21 “‘Stand to your cause,’ says the LORD, ‘Bring forth your strong reasons,’ says the King of Jacob.
22 “Let them bring them forth. And let them tell us what shall come. Let them show the former things, what they were, so that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them. Or declare to us things to come.
23 “Show the things that are to come hereafter, so that we may know that you are gods. Yea, do good or do evil, so that we may see it and look away together.
24 “Behold, you are of no value. And you are made nothing, having chosen an abomination by them.
25 “I have raised up from the North, and he shall come. From the East Sun shall he call upon My Name, and shall come upon princes as upon clay, and as the potter treads mire underfoot.
26 “Who has declared from the beginning, so that we may know, or before time, so that we may say, ‘He is righteous’? Surely there is no one who shows. Surely there is no one who declares. Surely there is no one who hears your words.
27 “I am the First, Who says to Zion, ‘Look! Look at them!’ And I will give to Jerusalem one who shall bring good tidings.
28 “But when I looked, there was no one. And when I inquired of them, there was no counselor. And when I demanded of them, they did not answer a word.
29 “Behold, they are all wickedness. Their work is nothing. Their images are wind and confusion.”
42 “Behold, My Servant. I will stay upon Him, My Elect, in Whom My Soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon Him. He shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.
2 “He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause His Voice to be heard in the street.
3 “A bruised reed He shall not break, and the smoking flax He shall not quench. He shall bring forth judgment in truth.
4 “He shall not fail or be discouraged until He has set judgment on the Earth. And the isles shall wait for His Law.”
5 Thus says God, the LORD (He Who created the heavens and spread them out. He Who stretched forth the Earth, and its buds. He Who gives breath to the people upon it, and spirit to those who walk in it),
6 “I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand. And I will keep you, and give you as a covenant to the people, for a light to the Gentiles,
7 “so that you may open the eyes of the blind and bring out the prisoners from the prison, and those who sit in darkness out of the prison house.
8 “I am the LORD. This is My Name and I will not give My Glory to another, or My Praise to graven images.
9 “Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I declare. Before they come forth, I tell you of them.”
10 Sing to the LORD a new song, His Praise from the end of the Earth, you who go down to the sea and all that is therein, the isles and its inhabitants!
11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voice (the towns that Kedar inhabits)! Let the inhabitants of the rocks sing! Let them shout from the top of the mountains!
12 Let them give glory to the LORD, and declare His Praise on the islands.
13 The LORD shall go forth as a giant. He shall stir up courage like a man of war. He shall shout and cry, shall prevail against His enemies.
14 “I have held My Peace a long time. I have been still, refraining Myself. Now I will cry like a woman in childbirth! I will destroy and devour at once.
15 “I will lay waste the mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs. And I will make the rivers islands. And I will dry up the pools.
16 “And I will bring the blind by a way that they did not know, lead them by paths that they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things I will do for them, and not forsake them.
17 “They shall be repulsed and greatly ashamed, those who trust in graven images and say to the molten images, ‘You are our gods.’
18 “Hear, you deaf! And look, you blind, so that you may see.
19 “Who is blind but My servant or deaf as My messenger whom I sent? Who is blind as the perfect, and blind as the LORD’s servant,
20 “seeing many things yet you do not keep them, opening the ears yet he does not hear?”
21 The LORD is willing for His righteousness sake, so that He may magnify the Law and exalt it.
22 But this people is robbed and spoiled, and shall all be trapped in caverns. And they shall be hidden in prison houses. They shall be for prey, and no one shall deliver. A spoil, and no one shall say, “Restore.”
23 Who among you shall give ear to this, listen, and hear for a time to come?
24 Who gave Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to the robbers? Did not the LORD, because we have sinned against Him? For they would not walk in His ways, nor be obedient to His Law.
25 Therefore, He has poured His fierce wrath upon him, and the strength of battle. And it set him on fire all around, and he did not know it. It burned him up, yet he did not consider it.
43 But now, thus says the LORD Who created you, O Jacob, and He Who formed you, O Israel: “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are Mine.
2 “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, so that they do not overflow you. When you walk through the very fire, you shall not be burnt, nor shall the flame kindle upon you.
3 “For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior. I gave Egypt for your ransom, Ethiopia, and Seba for you.
4 “Because you were precious in My sight, you were honorable and I loved you, therefore I will give men for you, and people for your sake.
5 “Do not fear, for I am with you. I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from the west.
6 “I will say to the north, ‘Give,’ and to the south, ‘Do not hold back. Bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the Earth.’
7 “Everyone shall be called by My Name. For I created him for My Glory, formed him and made him.
8 “I will bring forth the blind people and they shall have eyes, and the deaf and they shall have ears.”
9 “Let all the nations be gathered together. And let the people be assembled. Who among them can declare this and show us former things? Let them bring forth their witnesses, so that they may be justified. But let them hear, and say, ‘It is truth.’
10 “You are My witnesses,” says the LORD, “and My servant, whom I have chosen. Therefore, you shall know and believe Me. And you shall understand that I Am. Before Me there was no God formed. Nor shall there be after Me.
11 “I, even I, am the LORD. And besides Me there is no Savior.
12 “I have declared, and I have saved, and I have shown, when there was no strange god among you. Therefore, you are My witnesses,” says the LORD, “that I am God.
13 “Yea, before the day was, I Am. And there is no one who can deliver out of My Hand. I will do it, and who shall reverse it?”
14 Thus says the LORD, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I have sent to Babel, and brought it down. They are all fugitives. And the Chaldeans cry in the ships.
15 “I am the LORD, your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.”
16 Thus says the LORD, Who makes a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters:
17 “When He brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the power lie together, and shall not rise. They are extinguished and quenched, as a wick.
18 “Do not remember the former things or regard the things of old.
19 “Behold, I do a new thing. It shall come forth now. Will you not know it? I will even make a way in the desert, rivers in the wilderness.
20 “The wild beasts shall honor Me, the dragons and the ostriches, because I gave water in the desert and rivers in the wilderness, to give drink to My people, even to My Elect.
21 “I have formed this people for Myself. They shall show forth My praise.
22 “And you have not called upon Me, O Jacob. But you have wearied Me, O Israel.
23 “You have not brought Me the sheep of your Burnt Offerings. Nor have you honored Me with your Sacrifices. I have not made you serve with an offering, nor wearied you with incense.
24 “You brought Me no sweet savor with money. Nor have you made Me drunk with the fat of your Sacrifices. But you have made Me serve with your sins, wearied Me with your iniquities.
25 “I, even I, am He Who puts away your iniquities for My own sake, and will not remember your sins.
26 “Put Me in remembrance. Let us be judged together. State your case, so that you may be justified.
27 “Your first father has sinned, and your teachers have transgressed against Me.
28 “Therefore, I have profaned the rulers of the Sanctuary, and have made Jacob a curse, and Israel a reproach.”
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