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¹ Comfort you, comfort you my people, says your God. ² Speak comfortably to Yerushalayim; and cry 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.

³ The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of the LORD; make level in the desert a highway for our God. ⁴ Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low; and the uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain: ⁵ and the glory of the LORD shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of the LORD has spoken it. ⁶ The voice of one saying, Cry. One said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory of it is as the flower of the field. ⁷ The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of the LORD blows on it; surely the people is grass. ⁸ The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

⁹ You who tell good news to Tziyon, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Yerushalayim, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Yehudah, Behold, your God! ¹⁰ Behold, the Lord GOD will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. ¹¹ He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those who have their young.

¹² Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out the sky with the span, and comprehended the dust of the eretz in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? ¹³ Who has directed the Spirit of the LORD, or being his counselor has taught him? ¹⁴ With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shown to him the way of understanding? ¹⁵ Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he takes up the isles as a very little thing. ¹⁶ Levanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the animals of it sufficient for a burnt offering. ¹⁷ All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

¹⁸ To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him? ¹⁹ The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains. ²⁰ He who is too impoverished for [such] an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks to him a skillful workman to set up an engraved image, that shall not be moved. ²¹ Have you not known? have yet not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the eretz? ²² [It is] he who sits above the circle of the eretz, and the inhabitants of it are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in; ²³ who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the eretz as vanity. ²⁴ Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stock has not taken root in the eretz: moreover he blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. ²⁵ To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? says the Holy One. ²⁶ Lift up your eyes on high, and see who has created these, who brings out their host 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.

²⁷ Why say you, Ya`akov, and speak, Yisra'el, My way is hid from the LORD, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God? ²⁸ Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the eretz, doesn't faint, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding. ²⁹ He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength. ³⁰ Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: ³¹ but those who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.