I will comfort you there in Jerusalem as a mother comforts her child.”
Parallel translations
- WEB As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
- KJV As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
- BSB As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”
- NKJV As one whom his mother comforts, So I will comfort you; And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
- NASB “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
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Quick answer
God promises to comfort his people as a mother comforts her child. It matters because it reveals the tender, personal compassion of God toward his own.
Overview
In one of Scripture's most tender images, God likens his consolation to a mother's comfort, assuring his people of relief in Jerusalem. This caps the comfort theme that has shaped the latter half of Isaiah (40:1). Such divine compassion is embodied in Christ, who gathers and consoles his people as a hen gathers her chicks (Matthew 23:37).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- 2 Cor 1:4who comforts us in all our affliction, that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
- Isa 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
- Isa 40:1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
- 1 Th 2:7But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother cherishes her own children.
- Isa 65:18–19But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.
- Isa 66:10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;
- Ps 137:6Let my tongue stick to the roof of my mouth if I don’t remember you; if I don’t prefer Jerusalem above my chief joy.
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Isaiah sees him most clearly: the virgin's son Immanuel, the child on David's throne, the shoot from Jesse, the light to the nations, and above all the Suffering Servant pierced for our transgressions (ch. 53).
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