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God’s People Are Comforted

40 Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that her warfare[a] is ended,
    that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.

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  1. Isaiah 40:2 Or time of service

40 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye [a]comfortably to Jerusalem; and cry unto her, that her [b]warfare is accomplished, that her [c]iniquity is pardoned, that she hath received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:2 Hebrew to the heart of.
  2. Isaiah 40:2 Or, time of service
  3. Isaiah 40:2 Or, punishment is accepted. See Lev. 26:43.