...are overwhelmed with any kind of imperative, indicative reading of our sorrowful world: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. (lsa. 40:1-2, KJV) When we read the Hebrew prophets we...

...Ghost." He discerned his commission as a preacher especially in these words of Isaiah — "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned." And he remained true to this commission to the end of his days, only with ever-increasing penetration...

...faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. Psalm 73:26 KJV 35.44 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. Isaiah 40:1-2 KJV 35.45 Surely he hath borne our griefs,...

...distressed and comfortless soul, when these words were brought with power to my heart: 'Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins.' Is it possible, I said, that such a worthless sinner as...

...into the future, the return of Christ to reign. Read Isaiah 40: 1-5 and you will see: "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God, Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare...

...which is the better of these two presentations of the beginning of Isaiah 40 as poetry? i 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,' Saith your God. 'Speak ye comfortably...That her iniquity is pardoned: For she hath received of the Lord's hand Double for all her sins.' 2 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people,' saith your God....

...forgiveness. As a matter of fact, the 40th chapter, which begins the last 27 chapters, opens, "Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned." Isaiah 53 has to be the outstanding chapter in the book. There are twelve verses in Isaiah 53, and...

...arranged into verse lines) that contains the seed of Whitman's major theme in Song of Myself: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare...

...that ask him? Luke 11:9- 13 PREPARE YE THE WAY OF THE LORD Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saitfa your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her sins. The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness. Prepare...

...the English-speaking world in the AV form (perhaps as reproduced in Handel's Messiah) : Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably...that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. In the Good News Bible these words are rendered : "Comfort...