And the Lord spoke kind and comforting words to the angel who talked 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.
- 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.
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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 40:1–2“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
- Jer 29:10For Yahweh says, “After seventy years are accomplished for Babylon, I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.
- Zech 8:19Yahweh of Armies says: “The fasts of the fourth fifth, seventh, and tenth months shall be for the house of Judah joy and gladness, and cheerful feasts. Therefore love truth and peace.”
- Zech 1:9Then I asked, ‘My lord, what are these?’” The angel who talked with me said to me, “I will show you what these are.”
- Zech 2:4–12and said to him, “Run, speak to this young man, saying, ‘Jerusalem will be inhabited as villages without walls, because of the multitude of men and livestock in it.
- Zeph 3:14–20Sing, daughter of Zion! Shout, Israel! Be glad and rejoice with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem.
- Amos 9:11–15In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen, and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;
- Jer 30:10–22Therefore don’t you be afraid, O Jacob my servant, says Yahweh; neither be dismayed, Israel: for, behold, I will save you from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity. Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and no one shall make him afraid.
- Jer 31:3–14Yahweh appeared of old to me, saying, “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love. Therefore I have drawn you with loving kindness.
- Zech 8:2–8Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
- Zech 1:14–16So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
- Zech 4:1The angel who talked with me came again, and wakened me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
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