A Comforting Message
J. A. Alexander, D. D. Isaiah 40:1 Comfort you, comfort you my people, said your God. There is evident allusion to the threatening in Isaiah 39:7. Having there predicted the captivity in Babylon, as one of the successive strokes by which the fate of Israel as a nation and the total loss of its peculiar privileges should be brought about, the prophet is now sent to assure the spiritual Israel, the true people of Jehovah, that although the Jewish nation should not cease to be externally identified with the Church, the Church itself should not only continue to exist, but in a far more glorious state than ever. (J. A. Alexander, D. D.) Parallel Verses KJV: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. WEB: "Comfort, comfort my people," says your God.