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Comfort for God’s People

40 Comfort, O comfort, My people,
    says your God.
Speak kindly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that her warfare has ended,
    that her iniquity has been pardoned,
that she has received of the hand of the Lord
    double for all her sins.

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Comfort for God’s People

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

“Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her,

that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for,
    that she has received[a] from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:2 Literally “taken”