The Old Testament
| Book | Chapter | Verse | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 40 | (4) 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: | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (5) 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. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (6) 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: | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (7) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the LORD bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (8) The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (9) 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! | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (10) 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. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (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 gently lead those that are with young. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (12) 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? | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (13) Who hath directed the spirit of the LORD, or being his counsellor hath taught him? | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (14) 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? | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (15) 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. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (16) And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (17) All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (18) To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him? | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (19) The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith speadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (20) 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. | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (21) Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the begining? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (22) 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: | |
| Isaiah | 40 | (23) That bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. | |