Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, says your God.
Cross References
Exodus 22:3If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him. [A thief] shall make restitution. If he has nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.
Job 42:10And LORD turned [back] the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. And LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.
Psalms 85:3Thou have taken away all thy wrath. Thou have turned from the fierceness of thine anger.
Psalms 102:14For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and have pity upon her dust.
Song of Solomon 2:11For, lo, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.
Isaiah 14:3And it shall come to pass in the day that LORD shall give thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy trouble, and from the hard service in which thou were made to serve,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:2-3
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 1 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. We have here the commission and instructions given, not to this prophet only, but, with him, to all the Lord's prophets, nay, and to all Christ's ministers, to proclaim comfort to God's people. 1. This did not only warrant, but enjoin, this… Read the whole commentary →