Isaiah 40:2

"“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God."

Key Reflection

This verse invites a sense of divine comfort and reassurance to a people weary from exile and hardship. It signals that despite their current suffering, God promises restoration and the end of their trials, laying the groundwork for greater hope and healing in the coming chapters.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Speak ye comfortably -Hebrew,על־לב‛al-lēbas in the margin, ‘To the heart.’ The heart is the seat of the affections. It is there that sorrow and joy are felt. We are oppressed there with grief, and we speak familiarly of being pained at the heart and of being of a glad or merry heart. To speak ‘to the heart,’ is to speak in such a way as to remove the troubles of the heart; to furnish consolation, and joy. It means that they were not merely to urge such topics as should convince the understanding, but such also as should be adopted to minister consolation to the heart.

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