Isaiah 40:1
“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
3 A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
- KJV
- Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- WEB
- “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
- ASV
- Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- DARBY
- Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- BLB
- “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your⁺ God.
- ÅB
- Trøst, trøst mitt folk, sier deres Gud.
- OTB
- "Trøst, trøst mitt folk," sier deres Gud.
- B1930
- Trøst, trøst mitt folk, sier eders Gud.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
2 Corinthians 1:4
who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:12
“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?
Read in contextIsaiah 51:3
For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.
Read in contextZephaniah 3:14–17
Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
Read in contextZechariah 1:13
So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
Read in contextJeremiah 31:10–14
Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
Read in context1 Thessalonians 4:18
Therefore encourage one another with these words.
Read in contextIsaiah 49:13–16
Shout for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; break forth in song, O mountains! For the LORD has comforted His people, and He will have compassion on His afflicted ones.
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