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| Isaiah 40:1 | Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God. | Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. | Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. | Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. |
| Isaiah 40:2 | Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins. | Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. | Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. | Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. |
| Isaiah 40:3 | A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God. | The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. | The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. | The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. |
| Isaiah 40:4 | Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley, | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. | Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. |
| Isaiah 40:5 | And the glory of the Lord will be made clear, and all flesh will see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has said it. | And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. | And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see it: for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. | And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. |
| Isaiah 40:6 | A voice of one saying, Give a cry! And I said, What is my cry to be? All flesh is grass, and all its strength like the flower of the field. | The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field: | The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field: | The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the held. |
| Isaiah 40:7 | The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass. | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. | The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: |
| Isaiah 40:8 | The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal. | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. | The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall shall stand forever. | The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever. |
| Isaiah 40:9 | You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God! | O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God! | O Zion, that bringest good tidings, go up upon the high mountain: O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold your God! | Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God: |
| Isaiah 40:10 | See, the Lord God will come as a strong one, ruling in power: see, those made free by him are with him, and those whom he has made safe go before him. | Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. | Behold, the Lord GOD will come with strong hand, and his arm will rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. | Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him. |
| Isaiah 40:11 | He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young. | He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. | He will feed his flock like a shepherd: he will gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and will gently lead those that are with young. | He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young. |
| Isaiah 40:12 | In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales? | Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? | Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? | Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? |
| Isaiah 40:13 | By whom has the spirit of the Lord been guided, or who has been his teacher? | Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counseller hath taught him? | Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor hath taught him? | Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? |
| Isaiah 40:14 | Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom? | With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding? | With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? | With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? |
| Isaiah 40:15 | See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust. | Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. | Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. | Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust. |
| Isaiah 40:16 | And Lebanon is not enough to make a fire with, or all its cattle enough for a burned offering. | And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. | And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts of it sufficient for a burnt-offering. | And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. |
| Isaiah 40:17 | All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value. | All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. | All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. | All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity. |
| Isaiah 40:18 | Whom then is God like, in your opinion? or what will you put forward as a comparison with him? | To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? | To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare to him? | To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him? |
| Isaiah 40:19 | The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it. | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. | The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. | Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? |
| Isaiah 40:20 | The wise workman makes selection of the mulberry-tree of the offering, a wood which will not become soft; so that the image may be fixed to it and not be moved. | He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be moved. | He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh for himself a skillful workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved. | He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skilful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. |
| Isaiah 40:21 | Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base? | Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? | Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? | Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth ? |
| Isaiah 40:22 | It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place. | It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: | It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in: | It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. |
| Isaiah 40:23 | He makes rulers come to nothing; the judges of the earth are of no value. | That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. | That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. | He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. |
| Isaiah 40:24 | They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass. | Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. | Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown: yes, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. | And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. |
| Isaiah 40:25 | Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One. | To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. | To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equaled? saith the Holy One. | And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One? |
| Isaiah 40:26 | Let your eyes be lifted up on high, and see: who has made these? He who sends out their numbered army: who has knowledge of all their names: by whose great strength, because he is strong in power, all of them are in their places. | Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. | Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth. | Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing. |
| Isaiah 40:27 | Why do you say, O Jacob, such words as these, O Israel, The Lord's eyes are not on my way, and my God gives no attention to my cause? | Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God? | Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over by my God? | Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? |
| Isaiah 40:28 | Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? The eternal God, the Lord, the Maker of the ends of the earth, is never feeble or tired; there is no searching out of his wisdom. | Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. | Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding. | Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. |
| Isaiah 40:29 | He gives power to the feeble, increasing the strength of him who has no force. | He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. | He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. | It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. |
| Isaiah 40:30 | Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength; | Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: | Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: | Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. |
| Isaiah 40:31 | But those who are waiting for the Lord will have new strength; they will get wings like eagles: running, they will not be tired, and walking, they will have no weariness. | But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. | But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint. | But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. |
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