So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
- KJV And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
- NKJV And the Lord answered the angel who talked to me, with good and comforting words.
- NASB And the Lord responded to the angel who was speaking with me with gracious words, comforting words.
- NLT And the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked with me.
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Quick answer
God responds to the angel with kind and comforting words. After the cry for mercy, the Lord answers with reassurance.
Overview
The brief note that God replied with 'good and comforting words' signals a turn from longing to hope. God is not indifferent to His people's affliction; He answers intercession with grace. This tender response previews the comfort of the gospel, where God speaks peace to His people through His Son.
Cross-references & the web
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- Isa 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
- Jer 29:10For this is what the LORD says: “When Babylon’s seventy years are complete, I will attend to you and confirm My promise to restore you to this place.
- Zech 8:19“This is what the LORD of Hosts says: The fasts of the fourth, the fifth, the seventh, and the tenth months will become times of joy and gladness, cheerful feasts for the house of Judah. Therefore you are to love both truth and peace.”
- Zech 1:9“What are these, my lord?” I asked. And the angel who was speaking with me replied, “I will show you what they are.”
- Zech 2:4–12and said to him, “Run and tell that young man: ‘Jerusalem will be a city without walls because of the multitude of men and livestock within it.
- Zeph 3:14–20Sing for joy, O Daughter of Zion; shout aloud, O Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, O Daughter of Jerusalem!
- Amos 9:11–15“In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David. I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old,
- Jer 30:10–22As for you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.
- Jer 31:3–14The LORD appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with loving devotion.
- Zech 8:2–8This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”
- Zech 1:14–16Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
- Zech 4:1Then the angel who was speaking with me returned and woke me, as a man is awakened from his sleep.
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