A reading from
the Book of the Prophet Isaiah40:25-31
To whom can you liken me as an equal?/ says the Holy One./ Lift up your eyes on high/ and see who has created these things:/ He leads out their army and numbers them,/ calling them all by name./ By his great might and the strength of his power/ not one of them is missing!/ Why, O Jacob, do you say,/ and declare, O Israel,/ “My way is hidden from the Lord,/ and my right is disregarded by my God”?
Do you not know/ or have you not heard?/ The Lord is the eternal God,/ creator of the ends of the earth./ He does not faint nor grow weary,/ and his knowledge is beyond scrutiny./ He gives strength to the fainting;/ for the weak he makes vigor abound./ Though young men faint and grow weary,/ and youths stagger and fall,/ They that hope in the Lord will renew their strength,/ they will soar as with eagles’ wings;/ they will run and not grow weary,/ walk and not grow faint.
The word of the Lord.
