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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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17, 18. (a) Why can the Jewish exiles have confidence in the promise of restoration? (b) What awe-inspiring questions does Isaiah raise?
17 The Jewish exiles can have confidence in the promise of restoration because God is all-powerful and all-wise. Says Isaiah: “Who has measured the waters in the mere hollow of his hand, and taken the proportions of the heavens themselves with a mere span and included in a measure the dust of the earth, or weighed with an indicator the mountains, and the hills in the scales?
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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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18 These are awe-inspiring questions for the Jewish exiles to ponder. Can mere humans turn back the tide of the mighty seas? Of course not! Yet, to Jehovah, the seas that cover the earth are like a drop of water in the palm of his hand.b Can puny men measure the vast, starry heavens or weigh earth’s mountains and hills? No. Yet, Jehovah measures the heavens as easily as a man might measure an object with a span—the distance between the end of the thumb and the end of the little finger when the hand is spread out. God can, in effect, weigh mountains and hills in a pair of scales.
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“Comfort My People”Isaiah’s Prophecy—Light for All Mankind I
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b It has been calculated that “the mass of the oceans is approximately 1.35 quintillion (1.35 x 1018) metric tons, or about 1/4400 of the total mass of the Earth.”—Encarta 97 Encyclopedia.
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