1Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. 2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem; and cry to her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from Yehovah’s hand double for all her sins. 3The voice of one who cries, Prepare in the wilderness the way of Yehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. 4Every 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: 5and the glory of Yehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yehovah has spoken it. 6The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all its goodliness is as the flower of the field. 7The grass withers, the flower fades, because the breath of Yehovah blows upon it; surely the people is grass. 8The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever. 9O you who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; O you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God! 10Behold, the Lord Yehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him. 11He 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. 12Who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and marked off 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? 13Who has directed the Spirit of Yehovah, or as his counselor has taught him? 14With whom did he take counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding? 15Behold, the nations are as a drop from a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he takes up the coastlands as a very little thing. 16And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor its beasts sufficient for a burnt-offering. 17All the nations are as nothing before him; they are counted by him as less than nothing, and vanity. 18To whom then will you liken God? or what likeness will you compare to him? 19The image, a workman has cast it, and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts for it silver chains. 20He who is too impoverished for such an offering chooses a tree that will not rot; he seeks for himself a skillful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved. 21Have you not known? have you not heard? has it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood from the foundations of the earth? 22It is he who sits above the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as grasshoppers; who stretches out the heavens as a curtain, and spreads them out as a tent to dwell in; 23who brings princes to nothing; who makes the judges of the earth as vanity. 24Yes, they have not been planted; yes, they have not been sown; yes, their stump has not taken root in the earth: moreover he blows upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble. 25To whom then will you liken me, that I should be equal to him? says the Holy One. 26Lift 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. 27Why do you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, My way is hidden from Yehovah, and the justice due to me has passed away from my God? 28Have you not known? have you not heard? The everlasting God, Yehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, does not faint, nor is he weary; there is no searching of his understanding. 29He gives power to the faint; and to him who has no might he increases strength. 30Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: 31but those who wait for Yehovah 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.