Isaiah 40:1
Comfort my people [O ye prophetes] comfort my people, saith your God,
Bible (Bishops')
In The King James Version
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
In Context
Cross References
Isaiah 3:10Say to the ryghteous that it shall go well with them: for they shall eate the fruite of their owne studies.
Isaiah 35:3And therfore strength the weake handes, and comfort the feeble knees.
Isaiah 41:27The first is he that shall say to Sion, beholde, beholde, they are present: and to Hierusalem it selfe wyll I geue an euangelist.
Isaiah 50:10Therfore who so feareth the Lorde among you, let hym heare the voyce of his seruaunt: Who so walketh in darknesse and no lyght shyneth vpon hym, let hym put his trust in the name of the Lorde, and holde hym by 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 →