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Isaiah 40 Summary
Comfort for God's People
After chapters of judgment, Isaiah pivots to consolation with the words 'Comfort, comfort my people.' The chapter proclaims that God's glory will be revealed, all flesh will see it, and that the sovereign Lord comes with power. It closes with the majestic promise that those who wait on the Lord will renew their strength and mount up with wings like eagles.
Key themes
Key verses
Isaiah 40:1-2
“Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.”
Isaiah 40:3
“The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.”
Isaiah 40:28-31
“Hast thou not known? hast thou 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. He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall: But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.”
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