George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Isaiah 40:2
Evil. Hebrew and some Latin copies have, "warfare." --- Double. A rigorous chastisement, Apocalypse xviii. 6. (Calmet)
Evil. Hebrew and some Latin copies have, "warfare." --- Double. A rigorous chastisement, Apocalypse xviii. 6. (Calmet)
Verse Isaiah 40:2. _DOUBLE FOR ALL HER SINS _- "Blessings double to the punishment."] It does not seem reconcilable to our notions of the Divine justice, which always punishes less than our iniquitie...
SPEAK YE COMFORTABLY - Hebrew, על־לב _‛__al_-_lēb_ as 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 gri...
II. THE LATER PROPHECIES OF COMFORT AND GLORY (40-66) Like the first part this second part of Isaiah has three sections. The three sections of the first part revealed the judgments to come upon the Je...
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 biddi...
COMFORTABLY TO. to the heart of: i.e. affectionately. Compare Genesis 34:3; Genesis 50:21.Judges 19:3.Hosea 2:14. CRY. proclaim. Note the same
Isaiah 40:1-11. The Prologue This first proclamation of glad tidings to Zion (see ch. Isaiah 41:27) is a passage of singular beauty, breathing the spirit of new-born hope and enthusiasm with which th...
The term of Jerusalem's servitude is accomplished; she has suffered the full penalty of her transgressions. _Comfort ye_ The repetition of an emphatic opening word is characteristic of the writer's st...
_speak ye comfortably to_ Lit. "speak to the heart of." To "speak to one's own heart" is to whisper or meditate (1 Samuel 1:13); to speak to the heart of another is to soothe, or persuade, or comfort....
DISCOURSE: 920 THE SCOPE AND TENDENCY OF THE GOSPEL Isaiah 40:1._ Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplish...
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 relates, that...
VII. SALVATION THROUGH GOD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-53 A, PURPOSE OF THE LORD'S SERVANT Chapter S 40-43 1. COMFORT, CHAPTER 40 a. PREPARE FOR THE COMING OF THE LORD TEXT: Isaiah 40:1-11 1 Comfort ye,...
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins. SPEAK YE COM...
40:2 suffering (b-15) Or 'toil.' see Note, Numbers 4:3 , Daniel 8:12 . pardoned; (c-22) Lit. 'satisfied,' 'discharged.'...
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 length...
WARFARE] RM 'time of service,' i.e. enforced service and hardship: cp. Job 7:1. DOUBLE] i.e. double (ample) penalty (Jeremiah 17:18), in the sufferings of the exile. 3-5. A first voice enjoins prepar...
Enemies had ruined *Jerusalem 70 years earlier. But now the people will be able to build it again (see Isaiah 44:28). • The final words of this verse may seem to mean ‘double punishment’. However, th...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD PROMISES COMFORT TO HIS PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 40 TO 48 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 40 This chapter begins the second half of the Book of Isaiah. • In CHAPTER...
SPEAK YE COMFORTABLY... — Literally, _Speak ye to the heart._ The command is addressed to the prophets whom Isaiah contemplates as working towards the close of the exile, and carrying on his work. In...
דַּבְּר֞וּ עַל ־לֵ֤ב יְרֽוּשָׁלִַ֨ם֙ וְ קִרְא֣וּ...
CHAPTER V THE PROLOGUE: THE FOUR HERALD VOICES Isaiah 40:1 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 make out...
CHAPTER I THE DATE OF Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 41:1; Isaiah 42:1; Isaiah 43:1;...
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? Have you...
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 el...
Speak ye kindly to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her (b) warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received from the LORD'S hand (c) double for all her sins. (b) The time...
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 reluctancy on the part of Isaiah to perform this blessed s...
2._Speak ye according to the heart of Jerusalem. _Here God commands his servants the prophets, and lays down the message which he wishes them to deliver publicly, when believers shall be called to cha...
The first part of that which might be called the second book of Isaiah extends from chapter 40 to the end of chapter 48. The Messiah is, comparatively speaking, but little introduced here. It is rathe...
SPEAK YE COMFORTABLY TO JERUSALEM, AND CRY UNTO HER,.... Or, "speak to or according to the heart of Jerusalem h"; to her very heart, what will be a cordial to her, very acceptable, grateful, and comfo...
_Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins._ Ver. 2. _Spea...
Isa. 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 rece...
_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 of Dav...
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, literally, "to the heart of Jerusalem," addressing words of consolation to all members of the spiritual Zion, the Church of God, AND CRY UNTO HER, in a sermon of swe...
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 beautiful language and in its exalted visions the Gosp...
COMFORTABLY: _ Heb._ to the heart WARFARE: Or, appointed time...
1-11 All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pardoned. In the great atonement of the death of...
CRY UNTO HER; proclaim it in my name. HER WARFARE; the time of her servitude, and captivity, and misery. HER INIQUITY IS PARDONED; I am reconciled to her; I will not impute sin to her, to punish her a...
Isaiah 40:2 Speak H1696 (H8761) comfort H3820 Jerusalem H3389 out H7121 (H8798) warfare H6635 ended H4390 ...
THE PREPARING OF THE WAY (ISAIAH 40:1). 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 awaits thei...
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 them: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God...
Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem._ The loss of comfort is no small loss. God would have his people happy. They are in the best conditi...
Isaiah 40:1. _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 recei...
CONTENTS: Joyful prospect given to the people of God of the happiness of coming redemption. Reproof for their despondencies. CHARACTERS: God, Holy Spirit, Isaiah. CONCLUSION: Nothing can be spoken mo...
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 of s...
_Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem_ VOICES THAT SPEAK TO THE HEART This is one characteristic of the voices that reach us from God: they speak home to the heart (R.., marg.). The phrase in the Hebre...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:1 Encouragement for God’s Exiles: “The Glory of the Lord Shall Be Revealed.” These visionary chapters are addressed to the exiles in Babylon after the fall of Jerusalem in 586...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 40:2 SPEAK TENDERLY. God aims to win their hearts back. ⇐ ⇔
COMFORT FOR THE SUFFERING Isaiah 40:1. _Comfort ye, &c._ IT is generally agreed that these last twenty-six Chapter s relate to the restoration of the Jews from their captivity in Babylon. They are t...
PART III. ISAIAH'S LATER PROPHECIES (CH. 40-66.). SECTION I. THE PEOPLE OF GOD COMFORTED IN TRIBULATION (Isaiah 40:1.). EXPOSITION...
But he's talking about a whole new message of God for the people as we get into the new covenant of God. And so it is appropriate that this new section of Isaiah begins with the word of the Lord decla...
1 Corinthians 6:9; 2 Chronicles 30:22; Acts 1:7; Daniel 11:35;...
THE DEITY OF CHRIST IN ISAIAH Isaiah 40:1, _Isaiah 40:25_ INTRODUCTORY WORDS We suggest a threefold vision of the Deity of Christ as an introduction to the sermon proper. 1. THE DEITY OF CHRIST AS...
Warfare — The time of her captivity, and misery. Double — Not twice as much as her sins deserved, but abundantly enough to answer God's design in this chastisement, which was to humble and reform them...