“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God. 2Co 1:4Isa 51:12Isa 51:3Zep 3:14-171Th 4:18Jer 31:10-14Zec 1:13Isa 49:13-16 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD’s hand double for all her sins.” Zec 9:12Isa 61:7Hos 2:14Jer 33:8-9Rev 18:6Isa 43:25Isa 44:22Jer 16:18
The voice of one who calls out, Mal 3:1Mrk 1:2-5Jhn 1:23Mat 3:1-3Luk 1:16-17Luk 1:76-77Mal 4:5-6Isa 57:14
“Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness!
Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
Every valley shall be exalted, Luk 3:5Ezk 21:26Luk 18:14Isa 42:15-16Isa 45:2Ezk 17:24Job 40:11-13Isa 2:12-15
and every mountain and hill shall be made low.
The uneven shall be made level,
and the rough places a plain.
The LORD’s glory shall be revealed, Hab 2:14Isa 52:10Jol 2:282Co 4:6Luk 3:6Isa 60:1Act 2:17Isa 11:9
and all flesh shall see it together;
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it.”
The voice of one saying, “Cry out!” 1Pe 1:24-25Psa 103:15-16Jas 1:10-11Psa 102:11Job 14:2Isa 58:1Psa 90:5-6Psa 92:7
One said, “What shall I cry?”
“All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
The grass withers, Job 41:21
the flower fades,
because the LORD’s breath blows on it.
Surely the people are like grass.
The grass withers, Mrk 13:31Mat 24:351Pe 1:25Psa 119:89-91Mat 5:18Isa 55:10-11Isa 46:10-11Jhn 10:35
the flower fades;
but the word of our God stands forever.”
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. Isa 52:7-8Eph 6:19Isa 12:2Isa 25:9Isa 61:1Act 2:141Jn 5:20-211Pe 3:14
You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength!
Lift it up! Don’t be afraid!
Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a mighty one, Rev 22:12Isa 62:11Rev 17:14Mat 28:18Isa 49:4Isa 9:6-7Php 2:10-11Jhn 12:15
and his arm will rule for him.
Behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.
He will feed his flock like a shepherd. Rev 7:17Psa 23:1-6Mic 5:4Ezk 34:23Jhn 10:11-161Pe 2:25Ezk 34:12-14Isa 49:9-10
He will gather the lambs in his arm,
and carry them in his bosom.
He will gently lead those who have their young.
Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, Pro 30:4Heb 1:10-12Job 38:4-11Psa 102:25-26Isa 48:13Pro 8:26-28Job 11:7-9Job 28:25
and marked off the sky with his span,
and calculated the dust of the earth in a measuring basket,
and weighed the mountains in scales,
and the hills in a balance?
Who has directed the LORD’s Spirit, 1Co 2:16Rom 11:34Job 21:22Job 36:22-23Luk 10:22Eph 1:11Jhn 1:13
or has taught him as his counselor?
Who did he take counsel with, Job 21:22Col 2:31Co 12:4-6Jas 1:17
and who instructed him,
and taught him in the path of justice,
and taught him knowledge,
and showed him the way of understanding?
Behold, the nations are like a drop in a bucket, Isa 40:22Jer 10:10Isa 29:5Job 34:14-15Isa 11:11Gen 10:5Isa 41:5Dan 11:18
and are regarded as a speck of dust on a balance.
Behold, he lifts up the islands like a very little thing.
Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, Mic 6:6-7Psa 40:6Psa 50:9-12Heb 10:5-10
nor its animals sufficient for a burnt offering.
All the nations are like nothing before him. Psa 62:9Dan 4:34-35Isa 29:72Co 12:11Job 25:6
They are regarded by him as less than nothing, and vanity.
To whom then will you liken God? Isa 46:51Sa 2:2Isa 40:25Exo 15:11Act 17:29Jer 10:6Psa 89:6Exo 8:10
Or what likeness will you compare to him?
A workman has cast an image, Jer 10:9Exo 32:2-4Hab 2:18-19Isa 46:6-7Jdg 17:4Psa 115:4-8Hos 8:6Isa 2:20
and the goldsmith overlays it with gold,
and casts silver chains for it.
He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot. Isa 41:7Isa 46:7Jer 10:3-4Isa 2:8-9Dan 5:231Sa 5:3-4Isa 44:13-19
He seeks a skillful workman to set up a carved image for him that will not be moved.
Haven’t you known? Act 14:17Isa 46:8Isa 48:13Psa 50:6Rom 1:19-21Psa 115:8Rom 1:28Isa 27:11
Haven’t you heard?
Haven’t you been told from the beginning?
Haven’t you understood from the foundations of the earth?
It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, Pro 8:27Isa 42:5Isa 66:1Psa 104:2Jer 10:12Job 22:14Heb 1:10-12Isa 40:15
and its inhabitants are like grasshoppers;
who stretches out the heavens like a curtain,
and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in,
who brings princes to nothing, Job 12:21Psa 107:40Isa 34:12Jer 25:18-27Isa 19:13-14Isa 23:9Isa 24:21-22Job 34:19-20
who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.
They are planted scarcely. Isa 41:16Hag 1:9Isa 17:13Jer 23:191Ki 21:21-222Ki 10:112Sa 22:16Hos 13:15
They are sown scarcely.
Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground.
He merely blows on them, and they wither,
and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.
“To whom then will you liken me? Isa 40:18Deu 4:15-18Deu 4:33Deu 5:8
Who is my equal?” says the Holy One.
Lift up your eyes on high, Col 1:16-17Jer 32:17-19Isa 48:13Isa 51:6Isa 44:24Psa 147:4-5Psa 89:11-13Deu 4:19
and see who has created these,
who brings out their army by number.
He calls them all by name.
By the greatness of his might,
and because he is strong in power,
not one is lacking.
Why do you say, Jacob, Isa 49:4Luk 18:7-8Isa 49:14Job 27:2
and speak, Israel,
“My way is hidden from the LORD,
and the justice due me is disregarded by my God”?
Haven’t you known? Rom 11:33-34Psa 147:51Ti 1:17Isa 55:8-9Php 1:6Isa 40:211Co 2:16Gen 21:33
Haven’t you heard?
The everlasting God, the LORD,
the Creator of the ends of the earth, doesn’t faint.
He isn’t weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak. Isa 41:10Php 4:132Co 12:9-10Col 1:11Zec 10:12Jer 31:25Psa 29:11Isa 50:4
He increases the strength of him who has no might.
Even the youths faint and get weary, Amo 2:14Psa 34:10Psa 33:16Ecc 9:11Isa 13:18Isa 9:17Jer 6:11Psa 39:5
and the young men utterly fall;
but those who wait for the LORD will renew their strength. Lam 3:25-262Co 4:16Psa 27:13-14Psa 103:52Co 12:9-10Heb 12:1Gal 6:9Rom 8:25
They will mount up with wings like eagles.
They will run, and not be weary.
They will walk, and not faint.