Your God says, Comfort, comfort my people.
Speak comforting words to Jerusalem, and declare to him that the days of his war have come to an end, and his sins have been forgiven. He will receive double punishment from the Lord for all his sins.
A voice cries out, Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness, and make the way of our God level in the desert.
All valleys and mountains shall be filled, and every hill and hill shall be leveled. The high and low shall be made flat, and the rugged shall become a plain.
The glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all flesh will see together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Someone said, “You shout.”. Someone said, “What am I shouting for?”? He said, All flesh is like grass, and all his beauty is like the flowers of the wilderness.
The grass will wither, and the flowers will wither, because the breath of the Lord blows on it. The people are indeed grass.
The grass will wither, the flowers will wither, but the word of our God will stand forever.
Report good news to Zion, you must climb high mountains. Give good news to Jerusalem, speak up with all your might. Raise your voice and do not fear, and say to the cities of Judah, See, your God.
The Lord Jehovah will come like a Mighty One, and his arm will rule over him. His reward is with him, his retribution is before him.
He will feed his own flock like a shepherd, gathering lambs with his arm and holding them in his arms, slowly guiding those who nurse their lambs.
Who has measured the waters with the palm of his hand, the heavens with the mouth of a tiger, the dust of the earth with a rising bucket, the mountains with a scale, and the hills with a scale?
Who has measured the spirit of the Lord, or been his counselor to teach him?
Who does he consult with, who teaches him, who shows him the path of justice, and teaches him knowledge and the way of understanding?
Look, all the people are like a drop in a bucket, and can be counted as a speck of dust on a balance. He lifted up the islands like tiny objects.
The forest of Lebanon is not enough for firewood, and the animals in it are not enough for burnt offerings.
All the people are like nothingness before him, they are seen by him as inferior to nothingness, but as nothingness.
Who do you compare to God, and in what form do you compare to God?
Idols are forged by craftsmen, and silversmiths wrap them in gold and cast silver chains for them.
For those who are poor and unable to offer such offerings, they choose trees that cannot rot and seek craftsmen for themselves, and set up idols that cannot be shaken.
Have you never known? Have you not heard it? Didn’t anyone tell you from the beginning? Have you not understood the foundation of the earth since its establishment?
God sits on the great circle of the earth, and the inhabitants of the earth are like locusts. He spread out the sky like a curtain, and spread out the heavens like a habitable tent.
He brings the king to nothingness, and the judges of the earth to nothingness.
They were planted just now, and their roots were also rooted in the ground just now. When they blew on it, they all withered, and the whirlwind blew them away like straw.
And the Holy One said, Who will you compare to me and make him equal to me?
Lift up your eyes and see who created all these phenomena, and bring them out according to the number, and he will call them one by one. Because of his power, and because of his great power and strength, not even one is lacking.
Jacob, why do you say, My way is hidden from the Lord? O Israel, why do you say that God does not inquire about my injustice?
Don’t you ever know? Have you never heard it? The eternal God Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, is not weary or weary. His wisdom is immeasurable.
Tired, he bestows power. Weak, he adds strength.
Even young men will be weary and weary, and the strong will fall completely.
But those who wait for the Lord will regain strength, they will spread their wings like eagles and soar up; they will run but not be weary, and they will walk but not be weary.