As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Ver. 13. And as one whom his mother comforteth.] Her darling and dandling, especially when she perceiveth it to make a lip and to be displeased: mothers also are very kind to, and careful of, their children when they are grown to be men: a as Monica was to Augustine, and as Matres Hollandicae, the mothers in Holland, of whom it is reported, Quod prae aliis matribus mire filios suos etiam grandaevos ament, ideoque eos vocant et tractant ut pueros. See Isaiah 46:4. See Trapp on " Isa 46:6 "
a A. Lapide in Isaiah 54:13 .