Isaiah 40:1

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.

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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

In Context

2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.

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Cross References

Psalms 85:8There is none like to thee, O Lord, among the gods; 1 And there are no works like to thy works. 1

Isaiah 3:10Woe to their soul, for they have devised an evil counsel against themselves, saying against themselves, Let us bind the just, for he is burdensome to us: therefore shall they eat the fruits of their works.

Isaiah 35:3Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees.

Isaiah 41:27I will give dominion to Zion, and will comfort Jerusalem by the way.

Isaiah 50:10Who is among you that fears the Lord? let him hearken to the voice of his servant: ye that walk in darkness, and have no light, trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon 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 →

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