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Isaiah 40 — Sermon Preparation
The herald's voice announces comfort — the Lord comes to shepherd his people — and the Creator who never grows weary will renew the exhausted. Below is a research summary for Isaiah 40, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
- 31
- verses
- 357 / 208
- Hebrew words / lemmas
- 18
- classic sermon excerpts
- 5
- preachers & commentators
Isaiah 40 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| חָצִיר | châtsîyr | H2682 | 4 | grass, leek |
| יָעַף | yâʻaph | H3286 | 3 | tire, flight |
| כֹּחַ | kôach | H3581 | 4 | vigor, large lizard |
| צִיץ | tsîyts | H6731 | 3 | glistening, plate |
| קָרָא | qârâʼ | H7121 | 5 | call out to |
| יָגַע | yâgaʻ | H3021 | 3 | gasp, be exhausted |
| נָשָׂא | nâsâʼ | H5375 | 4 | lift |
How preachers through history handled this text
18 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 40, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“GREAT VOICES FROM HEAVEN Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2. 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. 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. 4. Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5. …”
— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 40:1–10 (Public Domain)
Places in the text
Based on ancient-geography data
- Lebanon— Isa 40:16
- Jerusalem— Isa 40:2
- Zion— Isa 40:9
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