The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:9 (NASB)

Go up on a high mountain, Zion, messenger of good news, raise your voice forcefully, Jerusalem, messenger of good news; raise it up, do not fear. Say to the cities of Judah, “Here is your God!”

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 40:10 (NASB)

Behold, the Lord God will come with might, With His arm ruling for Him.
Behold, His compensation is with Him, And His reward before Him.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 40:11 (NASB)

Like a shepherd He will tend His flock, In His arm He will gather the lambs
And carry them in the fold of His robe; He will gently lead the nursing ewes.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 40:12

Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and marked off the heavens with a span, enclosed the dust of the earth in a measure and weighed the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance?

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 40:13

Who has measured the Spirit of the LORD, or what man shows him his counsel?

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:14 (NASB)

With whom did He consult and who gave Him understanding? And who taught Him in the path of justice and taught Him knowledge, and informed Him of the way of understanding?

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:15 (NASB)

Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket, and are regarded as a speck of dust on the scales; Behold, He lifts up the islands like fine dust.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:16 (NASB)

Even Lebanon is not enough to burn, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:17 (NASB)

All the nations are as nothing before Him, they are regarded by Him as less than nothing and meaningless.

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 40:18

To whom then will you liken God, or what likeness compare with him?

 

[phil36]

Isaiah 40:19

An idol! A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold and casts for it silver chains.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:20 (NASB)

He who is too impoverished for such an offering selects a tree that does not rot; he seeks out for himself a skillful craftsman to prepare an idol that will not totter.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 40:21 (NASB)

Do you not know? Have you not heard? Has it not been declared to you from the beginning?
Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Isaiah 40:22 (NASB)

It is He who sits above the circle of the earth, And its inhabitants are like grasshoppers,
Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain And spreads them out like a tent to live in.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:23 (NASB)

It is He who reduces rulers to nothing,
Who makes the judges of the earth meaningless.

 

[Deade]

Isaiah 40:24 (NASB)

Scarcely have they been planted, scarcely have they been sown, scarcely has their stock taken root in the earth, but He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the storm carries them away like stubble.

 

[TabinRivCA]

Isa 40:25
“To whom then will you liken Me, Or to whom shall I be equal?” says the Holy One.

 

[crossnote]

Isaiah 40:26 (KJV) 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.

Isaiah 40:26 (NASB) Lift up your eyes on high And see who has created these stars, The One who leads forth their host by number, He calls them all by name; Because of the greatness of His might and the strength of His power, Not one of them is missing.

 

[TabinRivCA]

Isa 40:27
Why do you say, Jacob, and you assert, Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, And the justice due me escapes the notice of my God”?

 

[crossnote]

Isaiah 40:28 (KJV) 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.

Isaiah 40:28 (NASB) Do you not know? Have you not heard? The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth Does not become weary or tired. His understanding is inscrutable.