1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord 's hand double for all her sins.[ † ]Isaiah 61:7
3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord , make straight in the desert a highway for our God.[ † ]Matthew 3:3Mark 1:3Luke 3:4-6John 1:23Malachi 3:1Malachi 4:5-6Psalms 68:4 4Every 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 45:2 5and 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 35:2
6The 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:[ † ]Job 14:2James 1:101 Peter 1:24-25 7the grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: but the word of our God shall stand for ever.[ † ]John 12:34
9O 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! 10Behold, 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 59:16-18Isaiah 62:11Revelation 22:12 11He 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.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:10Ezekiel 34:23-31Micah 5:4John 10:11-14-16Hebrews 13:201 Peter 2:25
12Who 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?[ † ]Proverbs 30:4 13Who hath directed the Spirit of the Lord , or being his counsellor hath taught him?[ † ]Job 21:22Romans 11:341 Corinthians 2:16 14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of judgment, and taught him knowledge, and shewed to him the way of understanding?[ † ]Job 36:22-23 15Behold, 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. 16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 17All nations before him are as nothing; and they are counted to him less than nothing, and vanity.[ † ]Daniel 4:35Psalms 62:9
18To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?[ † ]Exodus 8:10Exodus 15:111 Samuel 2:2Isaiah 46:5Micah 7:18Acts 17:29 19The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.[ † ]Psalms 115:4-8Isaiah 41:7Isaiah 44:10Habakkuk 2:18-19 20He 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.[ † ]1 Samuel 5:3-4Isaiah 41:7Isaiah 46:7Jeremiah 10:3 21Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?[ † ]Psalms 19:1Isaiah 37:26Acts 14:17Romans 1:19 22It 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:[ † ]Job 9:8Psalms 104:2Isaiah 42:5Isaiah 44:24Jeremiah 10:12Job 36:29Psalms 19:4 23that bringeth the princes to nothing; he maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.[ † ]Job 12:21Psalms 107:40Isaiah 34:121 Corinthians 1:26-29 24Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:15Isaiah 40:18John 14:9Colossians 1:15 26Lift 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.[ † ]Psalms 147:4
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord , and my judgment is passed over from my God?[ † ]Isaiah 54:7-8 28Hast 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.[ † ]Psalms 147:5Ecclesiastes 11:5Romans 11:33 29He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.[ † ]Isaiah 30:15Isaiah 49:23Job 17:9Psalms 103:52 Corinthians 4:8-10, 16