Isaiah 51:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

Two things

Isaiah 47:9

Ezekiel 14:21

Who shall

Amos 7:2

By whom

General references

Jeremiah 24:10

Bible References

Two things

“But these two things will come on you suddenly in one day:
Loss of children and widowhood.
They will come on you in full measure
In spite of your many sorceries,
In spite of the great power of your spells.

For thus says the Lord God, “How much more when I send My four severe judgments against Jerusalem: sword, famine, wild beasts and plague to cut off man and beast from it!

Who shall

Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this adversity that had come upon him, they came each one from his own place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and comfort him.

Reproach has broken my heart and I am so sick.
And I looked for sympathy, but there was none,
And for comforters, but I found none.

Thus says the Lord of hosts,
“Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come;
And send for the

wailing women, that they may come!

Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
She did not consider her future.
Therefore she has

fallen astonishingly;

She has no comforter.

“See, O Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself!”

And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,
“Lord God, please pardon!

How can Jacob stand,

For he is small?”

By whom

Therefore I say, “Turn your eyes away from me,
Let me weep bitterly,
Do not try to comfort me concerning the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord
And the day of vengeance of our God;
To comfort all who mourn,

Then all his brothers and all his sisters and all who had known him before came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house; and they consoled him and comforted him for all the adversities that the Lord had brought on him. And each one gave him one piece of money, and each a ring of gold.

Then I looked again at all the acts of oppression which were being done under the sun. And behold I saw the tears of the oppressed and that they had no one to comfort them; and on the side of their oppressors was power, but they had no one to comfort them.

“For these things I weep;

My eyes run down with water;

Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

And it came about, when it had finished eating the vegetation of the land, that I said,
“Lord God, please pardon!

How can Jacob stand,

For he is small?”

But God, who comforts the depressed, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace,

General references

I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence upon them until they are destroyed from the land which I gave to them and their forefathers.’”