Isaiah 40:1
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
In Context
Cross References
Nehemiah 8:10And he said to them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions to them for whom nothing is prepared; for the day is holy to our Lord; and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.
Psalms 85:8I will hear what God, Jehovah, will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his godly ones: but let them not turn again to folly.
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well [with him], for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen the weak hands and confirm the tottering knees.
Isaiah 41:27The first, [I said] to Zion, Behold, behold them! and to Jerusalem, I will give one that bringeth glad tidings.
Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that feareth Jehovah, that hearkeneth to the voice of his servant? he that walketh in darkness, and hath no light, let him confide in the name of Jehovah, and stay himself upon his God.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:1
At this chapter begins the latter part of the prophecy of this book, which is not only divided from the former by the historical chapters that come between, but seems to be distinguished from it in the scope and style of it. In the former part the name of the prophet was frequently prefixed to the particular sermons, besides the general title (as ch. ii. 1 ; vii. 3 ; xiii. 1 ); but this is all one continued discourse, and the prophet not so much as once named. That consisted of many burdens, many woes; this… Read the whole commentary →