“ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. ”
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people - This is the exordium, or the general subject of this and the following chapters. The commencement is abrupt, as often happens in Isaiah and the other prophets....
Comfort (a) ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. (a) This is a consolation for the Church, assuring them that they will never be destitute of prophets by which he exhorts the true ministers of...
Prologue Announcing the End of the Exile. If. The prophet sees in the triumphs of Cyrus the coming fall of Babylon's empire, and a revolution in the fortunes of the exiles. These are God's voice bi...
This chapter commences. new Prophecy (see App-82), and follows that in Isaiah 34:1-17 ; Isaiah 35:1-10 , after the historic episode of Isaiah 36 ; Isaiah 38 . It will be seen that it forms an int...
1. Comfort ye. The Prophet introduces a new subject; for, leaving the people on whom no favorable impression was made either by threatenings or by admonitions, on account of their desperate...
DISCOURSE: 920 THE SCOPE AND TENDENCY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is acc...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Comfort ye, comfort ye - "The whole of this prophecy," says Kimchi, "belongs to the days of the Messiah."
Comfort ye, &c.— These are the words of the prophet, relating what he saw, or what he heard, in this scene of the manifestation of the kingdom of God, with its signs and concomitants. He relate...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The former were local and temporary in their reference. These belong to the distant future, and are world-wide in their interest. The delivera...
Israel's Restoration from Exile in Babylon On the authorship and date of these Chapter s see Intro. According to their subject matter, they fall naturally into three divisions of almost equal leng...
XL. (1) Comfort ye... — I start with the assumption that the great prophetic poem that follows is the work of Isaiah himself, referring to the Introduction for the discussion of all questions...
CHAPTER V THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES Isaiah 40:1-11 IT is only Voices which we hear in this Prologue. No forms can be discerned, whether of men or angels, and it is even difficult to...
the Cry of Jehovah's Herald Isaiah 40:1-8 Voices are ever speaking to us from the infinite; let us heed them. (1.) There is the voice of forgiveness , Isaiah 40:2 . Are you truly penitent? H...
We now commence the prophecies of peace, which also fall into three divisions, dealing in turn with the purpose of peace (40-48), the Prince of Peace (49-57), the program of peace (58-66). The fist...
CONTENTS At this Chapter, the Prophet begins a sermon, and a most blessed one it is, which continues to the very close of his prophecy. It is all pure gospel from beginning to end. The Holy Ghost co...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The Babylonish captivity being predicted in the preceding chapter, for the comfort of God's people a deliverance is promised, expressed in such ter...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Ver. 1. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. ] Hitherto hath been the comminatory part of this prophecy: followeth now the consolatory. Here beginnet...
Comfort ye , &c. “The prophet, in the foregoing chapter, had delivered a very explicit declaration of the impending dissolution of the kingdom of Judah, and of the captivity of the royal house o...
Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 708. 1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 40 The prophet having now foretold the Babylonish captivity, Isaiah 39:6,7 , doth here arm his people against it by the consideration of their certain deliverance out of it, and t...
The Preparing of the Way ( Isaiah 40:1-8 ). The humiliation of Assyria has, in Isaiah's eyes, opened up a new opportunity for the future for Judah/Israel. Yahweh has delivered His people, and awai...
THE LORD’S PEOPLE COMFORTED Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God . I. God has a people in the world. In one sense, all whom the Lord designs to create anew by His Holy...
Comfort The first two verses of Isaiah 40 ( Isaiah 40:1-2 ) give the key-note of the second part of the prophecy of Isaiah. The great theme of this section is Jesus Christ in His sufferings, a...
Isaiah 40:1 I. In our text there is a specification of one large class of medicine for spiritual disease; and therefore, by inference, one large class of sickness. "Comfort" is the staple of the p...
Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath...
Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. What a sweet voice is this to the church, after all her long afflictions. The words are doubled, to designate the fulness of comfort in the pardon o...
Comfort ye, comfort ye My people The great prophecy of Israel’s restoration In passing from chaps, 36-39, to chap. 40. we find ourselves introduced into a new world. The persons whom the prophe...
PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-23 .). EXPOSITION Prefatory Remarks THE A...
Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God. Note the repetition of the charge, with the emphasis implied, the significance of the address in the plural as including the Gospel-messengers of al...
1 Thessalonians 4:18 ; 2 Corinthians 1:4 ; Hebrews 6:17 ; Hebrews 6:18 ; Isaiah 3:10 ; Isaiah 35:3 ; Isaiah 35:4 ; Isaiah 41:10-14 ; Isaiah 41:27 ; Isaiah 49:13-16 ; Isaiah 50:10 ; Isaiah...
The Deity of Christ in Isaiah Isaiah 40:1-11 , Isaiah 40:25-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an introduction to the sermon proper. 1. The De...
Ye — Ye prophets and ministers.