Isaiah 40:2
Speake comfortably to Ierusalem, and crye vnto her, that her warrefare is accomplished, that her iniquitie is pardoned: for she hath receiued of the Lords hand double for all her sinnes.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say.
Cross References
Exodus 22:3But if it be in the day light, blood shall be shed for him: for he should make full restitution: if he had not wherewith, then shoulde he bee solde for his theft.
Job 42:10Then the Lord turned the captiuitie of Iob, when he prayed for his friends: also the Lord gaue Iob twise so much as he had before.
Psalms 85:3Thou hast withdrawen all thine anger, and hast turned backe from the fiercenes of thy wrath.
Psalms 102:14For thy seruants delite in the stones thereof, and haue pitie on the dust thereof.
Song of Solomon 2:11For beholde, winter is past: the raine is changed, and is gone away.
Isaiah 14:3And in that day when the Lord shall giue thee rest from thy sorrow, and from thy feare, and from the sore bodage, wherein thou didest serue,
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:2-3
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord 's hand double for all her sins. We have here the commission and instructions given, not to this prophet only, but, with him, to all the Lord's prophets, nay, and to all Christ's ministers, to proclaim comfort to God's people. 1. This did not only warrant, but enjoin, this… Read the whole commentary →