Isaiah 40:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Warfare

That her iniquity

General references

Song of Songs 2:11

Isaiah 35:3

Romans 4:7

Bible References

Warfare

You shall arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favor her, yea, the set time, is come.

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood from the books the number of the years, of which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.

And some of them of understanding shall fall, to test them, and to purify them, and to make them white, until the time of the end: because it is yet for the time appointed.

But you, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.

For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarries, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.

And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father has put in his own power.

But when the fullness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, do you not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdom of this world has become the kingdom of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign forever and ever.

That her iniquity

And in that day you shall say, O LORD, I will praise you: though you were angry with me, your anger is turned away, and you comforted me.

And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell in it shall be forgiven their iniquity.

I, even I, am he that blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember your sins.

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed you.

Instead of your shame you shall have double; and instead of confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

[A Psalm of David. A maschil.] Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, says the LORD, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, by which they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, by which they have sinned, and by which they have transgressed against me.

Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

General references

For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone;

Strengthen you the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Saying, Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered.