'Comfort' in the Bible

And Ephraim their father mourned many days, and his brothers came to comfort him.

And David said, "I will deal kindly with Hanun the son of Nahash because his father showed kindness to me." So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And the servants of David came to the land of the {Ammonites}, to Hanun, to comfort him.

Thus Job's three friends heard of this calamity that had come upon him. So each set out from his [own] place: Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite. And they met together to come to console him and to comfort him.

When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'

So how will you comfort me [with] emptiness, when fraud is left [in] your answers?"

Even when I walk in a dark valley, I fear no evil because you [are] with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me

You will increase my greatness, and you will comfort me all around.

This [is] my comfort in my misery: that your word preserves my life.

I remember your ordinances of old, O Yahweh, and I take comfort.

Please let your loyal love comfort me, according to your word to your servant.

My eyes long for your word, saying, "When will you comfort me?"

I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. {I saw the tears of the oppressed-- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful-- no one can comfort them}!

"Comfort; comfort my people," says your God.

For Yahweh will comfort Zion; he will comfort all its sites of ruins. And he will {make} its wilderness like Eden, and its desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in it, thanksgiving and [the] {sound} of song.

Two [things] here [have] happened to you--who will {show sympathy} for you?-- devastation and destruction, famine and sword--who will comfort you?

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; and I will lead him and give him and his mourners comfort as a recompense,

to {proclaim} [the] year of Yahweh's favor, and our God's day of vengeance, to comfort all those in mourning,

As a man whose mother comforts him, so I myself will comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.

"My comfort [is gone] from me, sorrow [is] on me, my heart [is] sick.

And they will not break bread for [the] mourning ceremony for them, to comfort him because of [the] dead. And they will not give drink to them, [the] cup of desolation, for their fathers, or for their mothers.

"Then [the] young woman will rejoice in [the] dancing in a ring, and [the] young men and [the] old men together. And I will turn their mourning to jubilation, and I will comfort them, and I will gladden them from their sorrow.

Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded against Jacob, [that] those surrounding him [should be] his enemies; Jerusalem has become a defilement among them.

What can I say for you? What can I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you so that I can comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction [is] as vast as the sea; who can heal you?

Proclaim again, saying, 'Thus says Yahweh of hosts: "My cities shall again overflow from prosperity, and Yahweh will comfort Zion again, and he will choose Jerusalem again." '"

"But woe to you who are rich, because you have received your comfort.

Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort,

who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those [who are] in all affliction with the comfort with which [we] ourselves are comforted by God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, thus through Christ our comfort overflows also.

But if we are afflicted, [it is] for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, [it is] for your comfort that is at work in the patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

And our hope for you [is] firm, [because we] know that as you are sharers in the sufferings, so also [you will be sharers] in the comfort.

So then, you should rather forgive and comfort him, lest somehow this person should be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

and not only by his coming, but also by the comfort [with] which he was comforted among you, [because he] reported to us your longing, your mourning, your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

and Jesus who is called Justus. These [are] the only ones who are fellow workers for the kingdom of God from the circumcision, who have been a comfort to me.

Therefore comfort one another with these words.