Isaiah 40:2

Isaiah 40:2

God’s People Are Comforted

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

2 “Speak¹ comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,
That her warfare is ended,
That her iniquity is pardoned;
^aFor she has received from the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”

3 ^aThe voice of one crying in the wilderness:
^b“Prepare the way of the Lord;
^cMake straight¹ in the desert
A highway for our God.

4 Every valley shall be exalted
And every mountain and hill brought low;
^aThe crooked places shall be made¹ straight
And the rough places smooth;

Commentaries:

John Wesley's Notes

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Warfare - The time of her captivity, and misery. Double - Not twice as much as her sins deserved, but abundantly enough to answer God's design in this chastisement, which was to humble and reform them, and to warn others by their example.

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