WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:01.160 Chapter 40. 00:02.060 --> 00:05.580 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 00:06.060 --> 00:10.860 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is 00:10.860 --> 00:13.660 accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned. 00:14.040 --> 00:18.020 For she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. 00:18.840 --> 00:23.320 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the 00:23.320 --> 00:26.660 Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 00:26.660 --> 00:31.660 And every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made 00:31.660 --> 00:36.320 low, and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain. 00:37.180 --> 00:41.280 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it 00:41.280 --> 00:41.660 together. 00:42.200 --> 00:44.360 For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 00:45.060 --> 00:46.920 The voice said, Cry. 00:47.780 --> 00:50.260 And he said, What shall I cry? 00:51.420 --> 00:56.440 All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. 00:57.060 --> 01:01.400 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the Spirit of the Lord bloweth 01:01.400 --> 01:01.920 upon it. 01:02.640 --> 01:04.460 Surely the people is grass. 01:04.880 --> 01:10.160 The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, but the word of our God shall stand for 01:10.160 --> 01:10.360 ever. 01:12.100 --> 01:16.860 O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain. 01:17.340 --> 01:21.780 O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength. 01:21.780 --> 01:24.260 Lift it up, be not afraid. 01:24.780 --> 01:27.800 Say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God. 01:28.960 --> 01:34.560 Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him. 01:35.000 --> 01:38.440 Behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. 01:39.000 --> 01:40.860 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd. 01:41.500 --> 01:46.320 He shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall 01:46.320 --> 01:48.200 gently lead those that are with young. 01:49.600 --> 01:54.360 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with a 01:54.360 --> 01:58.600 span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the 01:58.600 --> 02:01.320 mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 02:01.600 --> 02:06.660 Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord, or being his counsellor, hath taught him? 02:07.440 --> 02:09.020 With whom took he counsel? 02:09.560 --> 02:13.520 And who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him 02:13.520 --> 02:16.040 knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding? 02:16.040 --> 02:21.520 Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust 02:21.520 --> 02:22.140 of the balance. 02:22.540 --> 02:25.720 Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 02:26.420 --> 02:30.760 And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a 02:30.760 --> 02:31.300 burnt offering. 02:32.080 --> 02:37.480 All nations before him are as nothing, and they are counted to him less than 02:37.480 --> 02:38.940 nothing, and vanity. 02:39.940 --> 02:44.220 To whom then will ye liken God, or what likeness will ye compare unto him? 02:44.220 --> 02:49.040 The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with 02:49.040 --> 02:51.280 gold, and casteth silver chains. 02:51.980 --> 02:56.820 He that is so impoverished, that he hath no oblation, chooseth a tree that will not 02:56.820 --> 02:57.160 rot. 02:57.800 --> 03:02.420 He seeketh unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image, that shall not be 03:02.420 --> 03:02.800 moved. 03:03.900 --> 03:04.820 Have ye not known? 03:05.380 --> 03:06.380 Have ye not heard? 03:06.880 --> 03:08.880 Hath it not been told you from the beginning? 03:09.620 --> 03:12.600 Have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth? 03:12.600 --> 03:17.500 It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are 03:17.500 --> 03:22.060 as grasshoppers, that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them 03:22.060 --> 03:25.680 out as a tent to dwell in, that bringeth the princes to nothing. 03:26.140 --> 03:28.480 He maketh the judges of the earth as vanity. 03:29.400 --> 03:30.840 Yea, they shall not be planted. 03:31.560 --> 03:32.960 Yea, they shall not be sown. 03:33.380 --> 03:35.700 Yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth. 03:36.400 --> 03:41.400 And he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind 03:41.400 --> 03:43.140 shall take them away as stubble. 03:43.820 --> 03:45.880 To whom then will ye liken me? 03:46.100 --> 03:47.380 Or shall I be equal? 03:48.240 --> 03:49.280 saith the Holy One. 03:50.500 --> 03:55.400 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth 03:55.400 --> 03:56.600 out their host by number. 03:57.360 --> 04:00.740 He calleth them all by names, by the greatness of his might. 04:01.200 --> 04:04.900 For that he is strong in power, not one faileth. 04:05.940 --> 04:11.500 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, 04:11.600 --> 04:13.780 and my judgment is passed over from my God? 04:15.280 --> 04:20.680 Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the Lord, 04:20.880 --> 04:25.560 the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? 04:26.160 --> 04:28.120 There is no searching of his understanding. 04:28.740 --> 04:33.540 He giveth power to the faint, and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 04:34.140 --> 04:38.880 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall. 04:38.880 --> 04:44.360 But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up 04:44.360 --> 04:50.420 with wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, and they shall walk and not faint.