Thematic Bible: Consolation under Affliction


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Now may our Lord Jesus Christ and God our Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting comfort and good hope by grace, comfort and strengthen your hearts in every good word and work.





If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation. If we are comforted, it is for your comfort. It works through patience and longsuffering and is the same sufferings that we also suffer.


Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.



Come now, let us reason together (make things right) (correct matters) between us! Says Jehovah. Though your sins are like scarlet, they will become as white as snow. Though they are red like crimson, they will become as white as wool.



Who is a God like you who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? You do not keep your anger forever, because you delight in loving-kindness (unchanging love). You will again have compassion on us. You will tread our iniquities under foot. You will throw all our sins into the depths of the sea.














Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted up his heel against me. Be gracious to me and raise me up, O Jehovah, that I may repay them. By this I know that you are pleased with me, because my enemy does not shout in triumph over me. read more.
You uphold me in my integrity. You set me in your presence forever.

If the world hates you, you know that it has hated me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. I chose you out of the world. The world hates you because you are not of the world.



I returned and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed for they had no one to comfort them. The oppressors had power but they had no one to comfort them.

She weeps bitterly in the night. Her cheeks are wet from crying. Her lovers offer no comfort. Her friends have been false to her. They have become her enemies.




Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is for your benefit that I go away. For if I do not go away the helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send it to you. (Greek: autos: it)



Jehovah will surely comfort Zion. He will look with compassion on all her ruins. He will make her deserts like Eden and her wastelands like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness will be found in her along with thanksgiving and the sound of singing.


And yet some people will survive. Some of your sons and daughters will be brought out. When they come out to you, you will see how they live. Then you will be comforted after the disasters that I will bring on Jerusalem, after every disaster that I will bring against it.' You will be comforted when you see how they live. Then you will know that everything I have done was done for a reason,' declares the Lord Jehovah.'


To proclaim the favorable Year of Jehovah and the day of vengeance of our God. To comfort all who mourn,




You have seen trouble and grief and placed them under your control. The victim entrusts himself to you. You alone have been the helper of orphans.


Respect Jehovah, you holy people who belong to him. Those who reverence him are never in need. Young lions go hungry and may starve, but those who seek Jehovah's help have all the good things they need.



O may your loving kindness comfort me as you promise in your word.


Shout for joy, O heavens! Rejoice, O earth! Break into joyful shouting, O mountains! For Jehovah has comforted his people. He will have compassion on his afflicted.

In that day you will say: I will praise you, O Jehovah. Although you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you have comforted me.



You will nurse and be satisfied from her comforting breasts. You will nurse and be satisfied at her full breasts.



And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, until I declare your strength to this generation, your power to all who are to come.






I know that my redeemer lives, and in later days he will take his stand on the earth. Even after my skin is gone and this body destroyed, I will see God in my own flesh.


God did this to offer encouragement so we may rely on the hope offered to us. We have taken refuge in that hope and it is impossible for God to lie. These two things can never be changed.