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 rise up and take pity on Zion, because [it is] time to favor it, for [the] appointed time has come.

For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season} {has turned and gone away}.

For I know the plans that I [am] planning concerning you,' {declares} Yahweh, 'plans for prosperity and not for harm, to give to you a future and a hope.

in [the] first year [of] his kingship I, Daniel, observed in the scrolls the number of the years that it was [that were] to be fulfilled [according to] [the] word of Yahweh to Jeremiah the prophet for the devastation of Jerusalem--seventy years.

And [even] some of those {who have insight} will fall [in order for] them to be refined by it, and to be purified and cleansed until the time of [the] end, for the appointed time [is] still to come.

But you, Daniel, keep the words secret and seal the scroll until [the] time of [the] end; many will run back and forth and knowledge will increase."

For [there is] yet a vision for the appointed time; it will give witness to the end, and it will not lie. If it tarries, wait for it, for it will surely come and not delay.

But he said to them, "It is not for you to know [the] times or seasons that the Father has set by his own authority.

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

and they cried out with a loud voice, saying, "{How long}, holy and true Lord, will you not judge and avenge our blood from those who live on the earth?"

And the seventh angel blew the trumpet, and there was a loud voice in heaven saying, "The kingdom of the world has become [the kingdom] of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign {forever and ever}."

That her iniquity

And you will say on that day, "I will give you thanks, Yahweh, for though you were angry with me, your anger turned away, and you comforted me.

And no inhabitant will say, "I am sick"; the people who live in it, [their] iniquity [will be] taken away.

I, I am the one who blots out your transgressions for my sake, and I will not remember your sins.

I have wiped your transgressions out like cloud and your sins like mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you!"

Instead of your shame, a double portion, and [instead of] insult, they will rejoice [over] their portion. Therefore they will take a double portion in their land; {they shall possess everlasting joy}.

Happy [is] he whose transgression is taken away, whose sin is covered.

"But this [is] the covenant that I will {make} with the house of Israel after those days," {declares} Yahweh: "I will put my law in their inward parts and on their hearts I will write it, and I will be to them God, and they themselves will be to me people.

And I will cleanse them from all their guilt that they sinned against me, and I will forgive all their iniquities that they sinned against me, and that they rebelled against me.

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither sexually immoral people, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor passive homosexual partners, nor dominant homosexual partners,

General references

For look! The winter is over; {the rainy season} {has turned and gone away}.

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

"Blessed [are they] whose lawless deeds have been forgiven, and whose sins are covered over.