(A)who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

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11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

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12 “I, I am he (A)who comforts you;
    who are you that you are afraid of (B)man who dies,
    of the son of man who is made (C)like grass,

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16 Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, (A)who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good (B)hope through grace, 17 comfort your hearts and (C)establish them in every good work and word.

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But (A)God, who comforts the downcast, (B)comforted us by the coming of Titus, and not only by his coming but also by the comfort with which he was comforted by you, as he told us of your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced still more.

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Comfort for God's People

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

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16 And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another (A)Helper,[a] to be with you forever,

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Footnotes

  1. John 14:16 Or Advocate, or Counselor; also 14:26; 15:26; 16:7

You are a (A)hiding place for me;
    you preserve me from (B)trouble;
    you surround me with (C)shouts of deliverance. Selah

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12 Therefore (A)lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

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18 “I will not leave you as orphans; (A)I will come to you.

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My soul (A)makes its boast in the Lord;
    let the humble hear and (B)be glad.
Oh, (C)magnify the Lord with me,
    and let us exalt his name together!

I (D)sought the Lord, and he answered me
    and delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to him are (E)radiant,
    and their faces shall never be ashamed.
(F)This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him
    and (G)saved him out of all his troubles.

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12 For thus says the Lord:
(A)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
    and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (B)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
    and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
    so (C)I will comfort you;
    you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
    (D)your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and (E)the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,
    and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.

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The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

12 You[a] will say (A)in that day:
“I will give thanks to you, O Lord,
    for though you were angry with me,
(B)your anger turned away,
    that you might comfort me.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 12:1 The Hebrew for you is singular in verse 1

(A)Break forth together into singing,
    (B)you waste places of Jerusalem,
for (C)the Lord has comforted his people;
    he has redeemed Jerusalem.

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26 But the (A)Helper, the Holy Spirit, (B)whom the Father will send in my name, (C)he will teach you all things and (D)bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you.

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16 (A)Come and hear, all you who fear God,
    and I will tell what he has done for my soul.

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I (A)acknowledged my sin to you,
    and I did not cover my iniquity;
I said, “I (B)will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
    and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah

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18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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13 Therefore (A)we are comforted.

And besides our own comfort, we rejoiced still more at the joy of Titus, because his spirit (B)has been refreshed by you all.

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For as we share abundantly in (A)Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.[a] (B)If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; and if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which you experience when you patiently endure the same sufferings that we suffer.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Corinthians 1:5 Or For as the sufferings of Christ abound for us, so also our comfort abounds through Christ

For the Lord (A)comforts Zion;
    he comforts all her waste places
and makes her wilderness like (B)Eden,
    her desert like (C)the garden of the Lord;
(D)joy and gladness will be found in her,
    thanksgiving and the voice of song.

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17 (A)Show me a sign of your (B)favor,
    that those who hate me may see and be put to shame
    because you, Lord, have helped me and comforted me.

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10 (A)they shall not hunger or thirst,
    neither scorching wind nor sun shall strike them,
for he who has pity on them (B)will lead them,
    and by springs of water will guide them.

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14 And most of the brothers, having become confident in the Lord by my imprisonment, are much more bold (A)to speak the word[a] without fear.

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Footnotes

  1. Philippians 1:14 Some manuscripts add of God

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