Isaiah 40:1
Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, Saith your God.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
In Context
Cross References
Psalms 85:8I will hear what God the LORD will speak: Truly he will speak peace to his people, and to his servants; Only let them not turn again to folly!
Isaiah 3:10Say ye of the righteous that it shall be well with him, For he shall eat the fruit of his doings.
Isaiah 35:3Strengthen ye the weak hands, And confirm the tottering knees!
Isaiah 41:27I first said to Zion, Behold! behold them! And I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of glad tidings.
Isaiah 50:10Who is there among you that feareth Jehovah, That hearkeneth to the voice of his servant, That walketh in darkness and hath no light? Let him trust in the name of Jehovah, And lean 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 →