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    "chapter": 40
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    "n": 40,
    "bookSlug": "isaiah",
    "bookCode": "ISA",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ISA-40:1",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.1",
        "text": "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ISA-40:2",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.2",
        "text": "Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah`s hand double for all her sins."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ISA-40:3",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.3",
        "text": "The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ISA-40:4",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.4",
        "text": "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:"
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ISA-40:5",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.5",
        "text": "and the glory of Jehovah shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ISA-40:6",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.6",
        "text": "The voice of one saying, Cry. And one said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ISA-40:7",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.7",
        "text": "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, because the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it; surely the people is grass."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ISA-40:8",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.8",
        "text": "The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ISA-40:9",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.9",
        "text": "O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion, get thee up on a high mountain; O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!"
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ISA-40:10",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.10",
        "text": "Behold, the Lord Jehovah will come as a mighty one, and his arm will rule for him: Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ISA-40:11",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.11",
        "text": "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 that have their young."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ISA-40:12",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.12",
        "text": "Who 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?"
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ISA-40:13",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.13",
        "text": "Who hath directed the Spirit of Jehovah, or being his counsellor hath taught him?"
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ISA-40:14",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.14",
        "text": "With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?"
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ISA-40:15",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.15",
        "text": "Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ISA-40:16",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.16",
        "text": "And Lebanon is not sufficient to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt-offering."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ISA-40:17",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.17",
        "text": "All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ISA-40:18",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.18",
        "text": "To whom then will ye liken God? or what likeness will ye compare unto him?"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "ISA-40:19",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.19",
        "text": "The image, a workman hath cast [it], and the goldsmith overlayeth it with gold, and casteth [for it] silver chains."
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "ISA-40:20",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.20",
        "text": "He that is too impoverished for [such] an oblation chooseth a tree that will not rot; he seeketh unto him a skilful workman to set up a graven image, that shall not be moved."
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "ISA-40:21",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.21",
        "text": "Have ye not known? have yet not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?"
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "ISA-40:22",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.22",
        "text": "[It is] he that sitteth above 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;"
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "ISA-40:23",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.23",
        "text": "that bringeth princes to nothing; that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "ISA-40:24",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.24",
        "text": "Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "ISA-40:25",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.25",
        "text": "To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal [to him]? saith the Holy One."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "ISA-40:26",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.26",
        "text": "Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these, that bringeth out their host by number; he calleth them all by name; by the greatness of his might, and for that he is strong in power, not one is lacking."
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "ISA-40:27",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.27",
        "text": "Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from Jehovah, and the justice [due] to me is passed away from my God?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "ISA-40:28",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.28",
        "text": "Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard? The everlasting God, Jehovah, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary; there is no searching of his understanding."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "ISA-40:29",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.29",
        "text": "He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "ISA-40:30",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.30",
        "text": "Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:"
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "ISA-40:31",
        "verseRef": "Isa.40.31",
        "text": "but they that wait for Jehovah 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."
      }
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