Isaiah 40

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Isaiah 40 announces comfort, unmasks human frailty, magnifies the incomparable God, and calls weary people to renewed strength under his word.

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Isaiah 40 is not gentle comfort for people who want to remain impressed with man and only slightly encouraged about God. The chapter begins in Isaiah 40:1-5 with the command to comfort God’s people, but that comfort is tied immediately to the coming revelation of the glory of the Lord. Then Isaiah 40:6-8 cuts through human self-importance: all flesh is grass, its beauty fades, but the word of our God stands forever. That means consolation is not built on human resilience. It is built on divine permanence. The chapter keeps pressing upward. In Isaiah 40:21-26, the Lord is set above nations, rulers, and stars, incomparable in majesty and unsearchable in power. Only then does the promise of Isaiah 40:28-31 land with its proper force. The weary are not being told to gather strength from themselves. They are being called to wait on the everlasting God who does not faint. Isaiah 40 matters because it asks whether you want comfort without surrendering your small view of God, and whether you can receive strength only by admitting how exhausted and creaturely you really are.

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Isaiah 40:1-5 Isaiah 40:6-8 Isaiah 40:21-26 Isaiah 40:28-31

How the chapter unfolds

The chapter moves from the cry of comfort and the way of the Lord into the fading of flesh, the greatness of God, and the promise of strength for the faint.

Why this chapter matters

It matters because it teaches that comfort becomes real only when God is seen as incomparable and his word as unfailing.

Interpretive tension to watch

Do not turn Isaiah 40 into soft encouragement detached from theology. Its comfort is built on the weight of God’s majesty over every rival.

이 장을 위한 질문

  • Why does Isaiah 40 root comfort in the revelation of God’s greatness rather than in changed circumstances first?
  • How does the contrast between fading flesh and enduring word confront human self-importance?
  • What does the promise of renewed strength reveal about waiting on God instead of trying to outlast exhaustion alone?

Study with context

Use this as a chapter guide, then press deeper into the text itself. The goal is to slow down observation, notice structure, and ask better questions before jumping to conclusions.

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1 Be comforted, be comforted, my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her: for her evil is come to an end, her iniquity is forgiven: she hath received of the hand of the Lord double for all her sins. 3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, and the crooked shall become straight, and the rough ways plain. 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh together shall see, that the mouth of the Lord hath spoken. 6 The voice of one, saying: Cry. And I said: What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the glory thereof as the flower of the held. 7 The grass is withered, and the dower is fallen, because the spirit of the Lord hath blown upon it. Indeed the people is grass: 8 The grass is withered, and the flower is fallen: but the word of our Lord endureth for ever. 9 Get thee up upon a high mountain, thou that bringest good tidings to Sion: lift up thy voice with strength, thou that bringest good tidings to Jerusalem: lift it up, fear not. Say to the cities of Juda: Behold your God: 10 Behold the Lord God shall come with strength, and his arm shall rule: Behold his reward is with him and his work is before him. 11 He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather together the lambs with his arm, and shall take them up in his bosom, and he himself shall carry them that are with young. 12 Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and weighed the heavens with his palm? who hath poised with three fingers the bulk of the earth, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance? 13 Who hath forwarded the spirit of the Lord? or who hath been his counsellor, and hath taught him? 14 With whom hath he consulted, and who hath instructed him, and taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and shewed him the way of understanding? 15 Behold the Gentiles are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the smallest grain of a balance: behold the islands are as a little dust. 16 And Libanus shall not be enough to burn, nor the beasts thereof sufficient for a burnt offering. 17 All nations are before him as if they had no being at all, and are counted to him as nothing, and vanity. 18 To whom then have you likened God? or what image will you make for him? 19 Hath the workman cast a graven statue? or hath the goldsmith formed it with gold, or the silversmith with plates of silver? 20 He hath chosen strong wood, and that will not rot: the skillful workman seeketh how he may set up an idol that may not be moved. 21 Do you not know? hath it not been heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have you not understood the foundations of the earth? 22 It is he that sitteth upon the globe of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as locusts: he that stretcheth out the heavens as nothing, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in. 23 He that bringeth the searchers of secrets to nothing, that hath made the judges of the earth as vanity. 24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble. 25 And to whom have ye likened me, or made me equal, saith the Holy One? 26 Lift up your eyes on high, and see who hath created these things: who bringeth out their host by number, and calleth them all by their names: by the greatness of his might, and strength, and power, not one of them was missing. 27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel: My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God? 28 Knowest thou not, or hast thou not heard? the Lord is the everlasting God, who hath created the ends of the earth: he shall not faint, nor labour, neither is there any searching out of his wisdom. 29 It is he that giveth strength to the weary, and increaseth force and might to them that are not. 30 Youths shall faint, and labour, and young men shall fall by infirmity. 31 But they that hope in the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall take wings as eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.

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구절 40:1-8 구절 40:21-31
구절 40:1-8 Deep

Comfort begins where flesh is cut down and God’s word stands above it

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The chapter does not comfort by flattering human durability. It comforts by announcing that all flesh fades while God’s word remains unshaken.

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1 Peter 1:24-25
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구절 40:21-31 Standard

Strength is renewed only after God is seen as incomparable

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The promise to the weary rests on the majesty of the Creator who numbers the stars and never faints. Waiting is powerful only because God is greater than every exhaustion.

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2 Corinthians 4:16-18
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Isaiah 40:31 · Hebrew 텍스트로 이동

qavah (qavah)

직역: wait with expectancy

The term is stronger than passive delay. It suggests tension, expectancy, and dependence stretched toward God.

It makes the promise of renewed strength a call to Godward reliance rather than spiritualized inactivity.

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Isaiah 40:31
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Isaiah 40 · Exile-facing comfort and incomparable-God world 텍스트로 이동

Isaiah 40 speaks into a people who need comfort, but that comfort is framed by the collapse of human strength and the majesty of the Creator over nations and idols.

Modern readers may read the chapter as inspirational uplift and miss how aggressively it confronts small views of God.

It makes Isaiah 40 sound like theological comfort built on divine majesty rather than vague reassurance.

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