Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hathreceived of the Lord’shanddouble for all her sins.
O Zion, thatbringestgoodtidings, get thee up into the highmountain; O Jerusalem, thatbringestgoodtidings, lift up thy voicewithstrength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Beholdyour God!
Who hathmeasured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heavenwith the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Withwhomtook 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?
He that is so impoverishedthat he hath no oblationchooseth a treethatwill not rot; he seekethunto him a cunningworkman to prepare a gravenimage, thatshall not be moved.
It is he thatsittethupon the circle of the earth, and the inhabitantsthereof are as grasshoppers; thatstretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeththem out as a tent to dwell in:
Yea, theyshall not be planted; yea, theyshall not be sown: yea, theirstockshall not takeroot in the earth: and he shallalsoblowuponthem, and theyshallwither, and the whirlwindshalltakethemaway as stubble.
Lift up youreyes on high, and behold who hathcreatedthesethings, thatbringeth out theirhost by number: he calleththem all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Hastthou not known? hastthou 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.
But theythatwaitupon the LORDshallrenewtheirstrength; theyshallmount up withwings as eagles; theyshall run, and not be weary; and theyshallwalk, and not faint.