1Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. 2Speak ye tenderly {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. 3The 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. 4Every 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; 5And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD hath spoken it. 6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its beauty {the goodliness thereof} is like {as} the flower of the field: 7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of the LORD bloweth upon it; surely the people are {is} grass. 8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand forever. 9O 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! 10Behold, 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. 11He 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.

12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and measured {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? 13Who hath directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being His counselor hath taught Him? 14With whom took He counsel, and who instructed Him, and taught Him in the path of justice {judgment}, and taught Him knowledge, and showed to Him the way of understanding? 15Behold, the nations are like {as} a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance; behold, He taketh up the coasts {isles} as a very little thing. 16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its {the} beasts {thereof} sufficient for a burnt offering. 17All nations before Him are as nothing; and they are counted to Him less than nothing, and vanity. 18To whom, then, will ye liken God? Or what likeness will ye compare unto Him? 19The workman melteth and casteth an {a graven} image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. 20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh {unto him} a skillful workman to prepare a carved {graven} image, that shall not be moved. 21Have 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? 22It is He Who sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are like {as} grasshoppers; Who stretcheth out the heavens like {as} a curtain, and spreadeth them out like {as} a tent to dwell in: 23Who bringeth the princes to nothing; He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 24Yea, 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 like {as} stubble. 25To whom, then, will ye liken Me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One. 26Lift up your eyes on high, and behold Who hath created these things, Who bringeth out their host by number; He calleth them all by names by the greatness of His might, for He is strong in power. Not one faileth. 27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and the {my} justice {judgment} due to me is passed away {over} from my God? 28Hast 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. 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them who have no might He increaseth strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like {as} eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.