Isaiah 51:19

Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

In Context

18and there was none to comfort thee of all the children whom thou borest; and there was none to take hold of thy hand, not even of all the children whom thou hast reared.

20Thy sons are the perplexed ones, that sleep at the top of every street as a half-boiled beet; they that are full of the anger of the Lord, caused to faint by the Lord God.

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Cross References

Job 42:11And all his brethren and his sisters heard 1 All that had happened to him, 1 And they came to him, 1 And so did all that had known him from the first: 1 And they ate and drank with him, and comforted him, 1 And wondered at all that the Lord had brought upon him: 1 And each one gave him a lamb, and four drachma’s weight of gold, even of unstamped gold. 1

Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, 1 And saw all the oppressions 1 That were done under the sun: 1 And behold the tear of the oppressed, 1 And they had no comforter; 1 And on the side of them that oppressed them was power; 1 But they had no comforter: 1

Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, Let me alone, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the breach of the daughter of my people.

Isaiah 61:2to declare the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of recompense; to comfort all that mourn;

Jeremiah 15:5Who will spare thee, O Jerusalem? and who will fear for thee? or who will turn back to ask for thy welfare?

Lamentations 1:12All ye that pass by the way, 1 Turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, 1 Which has happened to me. 1 The Lord who spoke by me 1 Has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 51:18-23

Jerusalem's Affliction. ( b. c. 706.) 17 Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the Lord the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out. 18 There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up. 19 These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom… Read the whole commentary →

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