Chapter summary

Isaiah 40 Summary

Isaiah 40 brings comfort to God’s people, exalting his greatness and promising renewed strength to those who wait on him.

The chapter opens with ‘Comfort, comfort my people’ and the voice preparing the way of the LORD. It contrasts fading human strength with God’s everlasting power.

It ends with the soaring promise that ‘those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength… they will soar on wings like eagles.’

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Isaiah 40:31 “But those who wait upon the LORD will renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not faint.” Isaiah 40:8 “The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.””

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