1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her,
3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord,
4Every valley shall be exalted,
5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,
6The voice said, Cry.
7The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
8The grass withereth, the flower fadeth:
9O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain;
10Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand,
11He shall feed his flock like a shepherd:
12Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand,
13Who hath directed the spirit of the Lord,
14With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him,
15Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket,
16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn,
17All nations before him are as nothing;
18To whom then will ye liken God?
19The workman melteth a graven image,
20He that is so impoverished that he hath no oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot;
21Have ye not known? have ye not heard?
22It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth,
23That bringeth the princes to nothing;
24Yea, they shall not be planted;
25To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal? saith the Holy One.
26Lift up your eyes on high,
27Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel,
28Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard,
29He giveth power to the faint;
30Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
31But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength;