The Lord Is My Strength and My Song

You will say in that day: “I will give thanks to you, O Lord, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, that you might comfort me.

Therefore I said: “Look away from me; let me weep bitter tears; do not labor to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Comfort for God's People

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

Sing for joy, O heavens, and exult, O earth; break forth, O mountains, into singing! For the Lord has comforted his people and will have compassion on his afflicted.

The Lord's Comfort for Zion

“Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness, you who seek the Lord: look to the rock from which you were hewn, and to the quarry from which you were dug.

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

“I, I am he who comforts you; who are you that you are afraid of man who dies, of the son of man who is made like grass,

These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you?

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

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Comfort for the Contrite

And it shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people's way.”

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will lead him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all who mourn;

As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.