Comfort for God’s People

40 Comfort, comfort(A) my people,
    says your God.

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

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God’s People Are Comforted(A)

40 “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”
Says your God.

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Speak tenderly(A) to Jerusalem,
    and proclaim to her
that her hard service(B) has been completed,(C)
    that her sin has been paid for,(D)
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double(E) for all her sins.

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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.

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“Speak [a]comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
(A)For she has received from the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:2 Lit. to the heart of

19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting people’s sins against them.(A) And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.

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19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

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19 that is, that (A)God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not [a]imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 5:19 reckoning