Isaiah 40:2

Comfort For God's People

¹ "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God. ² "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins." ³ The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness. Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

From the Lord

Received from the Lord

Time of Trouble

Jehovah

Jerusalem

Sin

Isaiah 61:7

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

Jeremiah 16:18

First I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have polluted my land with the carcasses of their detestable things, and have filled my inheritance with their abominations."

Zechariah 9:12

Turn to the stronghold, you prisoners of hope. Even today I declare that I will restore double to you.

Revelation 18:6

Return to her just as she returned, and repay her double as she did, and according to her works. In the cup which she mixed, mix to her double.

Isaiah 33:24

The inhabitant won't say, "I am sick." The people who dwell therein will be forgiven their iniquity.

Hosea 2:14

"Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak tenderly to her.

Genesis 34:3

His soul joined to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the young lady, and spoke kindly to the young lady.

2 Chronicles 30:22

Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding in the service of the LORD. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to the LORD, the God of their fathers.

Job 42:10-12

The LORD turned the captivity of Job, when he prayed for his friends. The LORD gave Job twice as much as he had before.

Psalm 32:1

Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.

Psalm 102:13-28

You will arise and have mercy on Zion; for it is time to have pity on her. Yes, the set time has come.

Song of Songs 2:11-13

For, behold, the winter is past. The rain is over and gone.

Isaiah 12:1

In that day you will say, "I will give thanks to you, the LORD; for though you were angry with me, your anger has turned away and you comfort me.

Isaiah 35:4

Tell those who have a fearful heart, "Be strong. Do not be afraid. Behold, your God will come with vengeance, God's retribution. He will come and save you.

Isaiah 41:11-13

Behold, all those who are incensed against you will be disappointed and confounded. Those who strive with you will be like nothing, and shall perish.

Isaiah 43:25

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

Isaiah 44:22

I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.

Isaiah 49:25

But thus says the LORD, "Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered; for I will contend with him who contends with you, and I will save your children.

Jeremiah 17:18

Let them be disappointed who persecute me, but let not me be disappointed; let them be dismayed, but do not let me be dismayed; bring on them the day of disaster, and destroy them with double destruction."

Jeremiah 29:11

For I know the plans that I have for you,' says the LORD, 'plans for your welfare, and not for calamity, to give you hope and a future.

Jeremiah 31:33-34

"But this is 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 in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:

Jeremiah 33:8-9

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 against me, and by which they have transgressed against me.

Daniel 9:2

in the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood from the books the number of the years about which the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the completion of the desolation of Jerusalem, seventy years.

Daniel 9:12

He has confirmed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our rulers who ruled us, by bringing on us a great calamity; for under the whole heaven such has not been done as has been done on Jerusalem.

Daniel 9:24-27

Seventy weeks are decreed on your people and on your holy city, to put an end to the transgression, and to make an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, and to bring in everlasting righteousness, and to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the most holy place.

Daniel 11:35

Some of those who are wise shall fall, to be refined, purified and cleansed until the time of the end; for the appointed time is still to come.

Daniel 12:4

But you, Daniel, close up these words, and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall roam here and there, and knowledge shall increase."

Daniel 12:9

And he said, "Go your way, Daniel, for the words are shut up and sealed until the time of the end.

Habakkuk 2:3

For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hurries toward the end, and won't prove false. Though it takes time, wait for it; because it will surely come. It won't delay.

Zechariah 1:15

I am very angry with the nations that are at ease; for I was but only a little angry, but they added to the calamity."

Acts 1:7

He said to them, "It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has set within his own authority.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor men who have sexual relations with men,

Galatians 4:4

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

Revelation 6:10-11

They called out with a loud voice, saying, "How long, Master, the holy and true, until you judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?"

Revelation 11:15-18

The seventh angel sounded, and great voices in heaven followed, saying, "The kingdom of the world now belongs to our Lord and to his Christ, and he will reign forever and ever."