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Comfort ye, comfort ye my people - This is the exordium, or the general subject of this and the following chapters. The commencement is abrupt, a...
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 p...
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 th...
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 ;...
1. Comfort ye. The Prophet introduces a new subject; for, leaving the people on whom no favorable impression was made either by threatenings...
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 Je...
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 Mes...
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...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The former were local and temporary in their reference. These belong to the distant future,...
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 n...
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...
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, whe...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1-31 ; Isaiah 41:1-29 ; Isaiah 42:1-25 ; Isaiah 43:1-28 ; Isaiah 44:1-28 ; Isaiah 45:1-25 ; Isaiah 46:1-13...
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 forg...
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...
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 pu...
Reader! do not fail to remark the Lord's gracious commands for comforting his people; he doubles it. Not that we are to suppose there was any relucta...
Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The Babylonish captivity being predicted in the preceding chapter, for the comfort of God's peopl...
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 prop...
Comfort ye , &c. “The prophet, in the foregoing chapter, had delivered a very explicit declaration of the impending dissolution of the kingdom o...
Evangelical Predictions. B. C. 708. ...
ISAIAH CHAPTER 40 The prophet having now foretold the Babylonish captivity, Isaiah 39:6,7 , doth here arm his people against it by the considera...
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...
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, al...
COMFORT FOR THE SUFFERING Isaiah 40:1-5 . Comfort ye, &c. IT is generally agreed that these last twenty-six Chapter s relate to the restorat...
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...
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 c...
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 accompli...
Isaiah 40:1-2 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. The loss of comfort is no small loss. God w...
Isaiah 40:1 . Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. «They need it, and they shall have it. Mind, O my servants, that you give it to t...
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, t...
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 introd...
PART III . ISAIAH 'S LATER PROPHECIES ( CH . 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION ( Isaiah 40:1-...
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 t...
The Word of Comfort and the God of Comfort. The last part of the book of the prophet Isaiah has fitly been called the Book of Comfort, for in its...
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...
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...
1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.