The following is the standard Haftorah for this week's Torah reading. However, various calendar-based considerations occasionally cause different Haftorahs to be substituted for the standard ones.
Isaiah
Chapter 40
| 27. Why should you say, O Jacob, and speak, O Israel, "My way has been hidden from the Lord, and from my God, my judgment passes"? |
| 28. Do you not know-if you have not heard-an everlasting God is the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth; He neither tires nor wearies; there is no fathoming His understanding. |
| 29. Who gives the tired strength, and to him who has no strength, He increases strength. |
| 30. Now youths shall become tired and weary, and young men shall stumble. |
| 31. But those who put their hope in the Lord shall renew [their] vigor, they shall raise wings as eagles; they shall run and not weary, they shall walk and not tire. |
Chapter 41
| 1. Be silent to Me, you islands, and kingdoms shall renew [their] strength; they shall approach, then they shall speak, together to judgment let us draw near. |
| 2. Who aroused from the East, [the one] whom righteousness accompanied? He placed nations before him and over kings He gave him dominion; He made his sword like dust, his bow like wind-blown stubble. |
| 3. He pursued them and passed on safely, on a path upon which he had not come with his feet. |
| 4. Who worked and did, Who calls the generations from the beginning; I, the Lord, am first, and with the last ones I am He. |
| 5. The islands shall see and fear; the ends of the earth shall quake; they have approached and come. |
| 6. Each one shall aid his fellow, and to his brother he shall say, "Strengthen yourself." |
| 7. And the craftsman strengthened the smith, the one who smooths with the hammer [strengthened] the one who wields the sledge hammer; he says of the cement, "It is good," and he strengthened it with nails that it should not move. |
| 8. But you, Israel My servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham, who loved Me, |
| 9. Whom I grasped from the ends of the earth, and from its nobles I called you, and I said to you, "You are My servant"; I chose you and I did not despise you. |
| 10. Do not fear for I am with you; be not discouraged for I am your God: I encouraged you, I also helped you, I also supported you with My righteous hand. |
| 11. Behold all those incensed against you shall be ashamed and confounded; those who quarreled with you shall be as nought and be lost. |
| 12. You may seek them but not find them, those who quarrel with you; those who war with you shall be as nought and as nothing. |
| 13. For I, the Lord your God, grasp your right hand; Who says to you, "Fear not, I help you." |
| 14. Fear not, O worm of Jacob, the number of Israel; "I have helped you," says the Lord, and your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. |
| 15. Behold I have made you a new grooved threshing-sledge, with sharp points; you shall thresh the mountains and crush them fine, and you shall make hills like chaff. |
| 16. You shall winnow them, and a wind shall carry them off, and a tempest shall scatter them, and you shall rejoice with the Lord, with the Holy One of Israel shall you praise yourself. |
Please note: These Haftorah texts follow Chabad custom. Other communities could possibly read more, less, or a different section of the Prophets altogether. Please consult with your rabbi.
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