Isaiah 51:19

These two troubles happened to you—who will grieve with you?— 1 desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will comfort you? + 51:19 The Hebrew text and some modern versions have How will I comfort you? , most modern versions correct this passage to Who will comfort you? 1

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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

18There is no one among all the sons she has born to guide her; 1 there is no one among all the sons that she has raised to take her by the hand. 1

20Your sons have fainted; they lie at every street corner, like an antelope in a net; 1 they are filled with the anger of Yahweh, the rebuke of your God. 1

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Cross References

Job 42:11Then all Job's brothers, and all his sisters, and all who knew him before, came to him and ate food with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the disasters that Yahweh had brought upon him, and each of them gave Job a piece of silver and a ring of gold.

Ecclesiastes 4:1Once again I thought about all the oppression that is done under the sun. 1 And behold, the tears of oppressed people, 2 and they had no one to comfort them! 1 Power was in the hand of their oppressors, 2 and there was no one to comfort them! 1

Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Do not look at me, I will weep bitterly; 1 do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.” 1

Isaiah 61:2He has sent me to proclaim the year of Yahweh's favor, 1 the day of vengeance of our God, 1 and to comfort all who mourn. 1

Jeremiah 15:5For who will have compassion for you, Jerusalem? Who will grieve for you? 1

Lamentations 1:12Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? 1 Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me, 1 since Yahweh has tormented me on 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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