Isaiah 40

4 songs checked against Isaiah 40. Each proof shows the passage, what the song does with it, and whether you can sing it. Read the whole chapter: Bible Gateway ↗ · Bible Hub ↗

Isaiah 40:12-14 · “Behold Our God” · Sovereign Grace Music

NOT A QUOTE “Behold Our God” Sovereign Grace Music Isaiah 40:12-14 Sing it. Nothing here is offered as a quotation. It borrows Isaiah 40's way of arguing rather than its words, and the verse about the nails is the song's own addition, not Isaiah's.

✓ Borrows Isaiah 40's rhetorical method, unanswerable questions answered by God alone, rather than only its imagery

⚠ Isaiah 40's greatness argument exists to comfort exiles who think God has forgotten them. Sung as majesty alone, the consolation the chapter is arguing for can go missing

Isaiah 40:25 · “Only a Holy God” · CityAlight

NOT A QUOTE “Only a Holy God” CityAlight Isaiah 40:25 Sing it. Nothing here is offered as a quotation. The questions are the songwriters' own, cast in Isaiah 40's shape, and every answer the song gives is one the chapter supports.

✓ Borrows Isaiah 40's method rather than its wording: repeated comparison questions whose only available answer is nobody

⚠ In Isaiah 40:25 the question is God's own, spoken in the first person. In the song it is ours, spoken about Him. The form survives the move; the force of it changes

Isaiah 40:28-31 · “Soar Like Eagles” · Seeds Family Worship (now Seeds Kids Worship)

~ FAITHFUL “Soar Like Eagles” Seeds Family Worship (now Seeds Kids Worship) Isaiah 40:28-31 Sing it. Three verses arrive whole and in order. Check the words against an NIV rather than the ESV the album page names, and read verse 28 once, so the singer knows why the strength renews.

✓ Three consecutive verses sung whole and in order, with a chorus built entirely from the passage's own clauses

⚠ The album page lists the scripture version as ESV while the song's own chart credits the NIV, and the sung wording is the NIV's. The label a listener sees first names the wrong text

Isaiah 40:31 · “Wait on You” · Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music

✎ DEPARTS “Wait on You” Elevation Worship & Maverick City Music Isaiah 40:31 Sing it. The vow to wait is one Isaiah 40 would recognize. Sing the closing refrain as an echo of the verse, not as the verse itself: the wording drifts where the sound does not.

✓ The closing refrain plants the whole promise of Isaiah 40:31, waiting, renewed strength, wings, running and walking that do not give out, in the verse's own third person

⚠ The refrain sounds like the King James and is not quite it. Transcriptions of the recording show a soaring clause the verse does not have and the walking sung before the running. Check a KJV before quoting the refrain as the verse

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