And the LORD answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh answered the angel who talked with me with kind and comforting words.
- BSB So the LORD spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who was speaking with me.
- 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
Cross-references · 12
- Isa 40:1–2Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God.
- Jer 29:10For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- Zech 8:19Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace.
- Zech 1:9Then said I, O my lord, what are these? And the angel that talked with me said unto me, I will shew thee what these be.
- Zech 2:4–12And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein:
- Zeph 3:14–20Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.
- Amos 9:11–15In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:
- Jer 30:10–22Therefore fear thou not, O my servant Jacob, saith the LORD; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be in rest, and be quiet, and none shall make him afraid.
- Jer 31:3–14The LORD hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.
- Zech 8:2–8Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.
- Zech 1:14–16So the angel that communed with me said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
- Zech 4:1And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,
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