'comfort Ye Comfort Ye' Author:John Ross MacDuff Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: " LIFT up your eyes on high, And see who hath created these. He leadeth forth their armies by number; He calleth them all by name, Through the greatness of His s... more »trength and the mightiness of His power (Lowth); There is not one that is missing. Why sayest thou then, O Jacob, And why speakest thou thus, O Israel, ' Hidden is my way from Jehovah, And by my God my cause is passed by.' Hast thou not known, hast thou not heard, That Jehovah—the Cod of Eternitv, Creator of the ends of the earth, Fainteth not, nor becomes wearied; His understanding is unsearchable. He giveth strength to the faint; To the powerless, might will He increase. And weary shall youths be and faint, And the chosen youths shall be weakened, be weakened (Alexander). But those, waiting for Jehovah, shall gain new strength ; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be wearied, They shall go onward and not faint." —Isaiah xl. 26, 27, 28. Comfort ge, tcrmfori %t mg saiilr gour " 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 ? 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." —Isaiah xl. 27, 28. Nothing can be finer in any poetry, Rebuked. n e ie sacred or profane, than the verses preceding those which have just been quoted. In them, the Prophet utters, in the name of his God, a series of sublime challenges and protests against the blasphemous assumption of the Chaldeans, who claimed for their idol- deities supremacy over the Jehovah of the Hebrews. Ver. 12, "Who" (among your godsof gold and silver, brass, iron, wood, and stone —Dan. v. 4) " h...« less