Isaiah 40:1 ““Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.”

Isaiah 40:1

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

World English Bible

“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

American Standard Version

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Geneva Bible 1599

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, will your God say.

Darby Translation

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.

Young's Literal Translation

Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God.

Bible in Basic English

Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

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Cross references

“comfort”

2 Corinthians 1:4 Isaiah 51:12 Isaiah 51:3 Zephaniah 3:14–17 Jeremiah 31:10–14 Zechariah 1:13

2 Corinthians 1:4 · BSB

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.

Isaiah 51:12 · BSB

“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?

Isaiah 51:3 · BSB

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 mel…

Zephaniah 3:14–17 · BSB

Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!

Jeremiah 31:10–14 · BSB

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.

Zechariah 1:13 · BSB

So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.

Also

Isaiah 12:1 Isaiah 52:9

Isaiah 12:1 · BSB

In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and You have comforted me.

Isaiah 52:9 · BSB

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

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.”

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