Isaiah 40:1

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. The Babylonish captivity being predicted in the preceding chapter, for the comfort of God's people a deliverance is promised, expressed in such terms,…

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people - This is the exordium, or the general subject of this and the following chapters. The commencement is abrupt, as often happens in Isaiah and the other prophets. The…

We have here the commission and instructions given, not to this prophet only, but, with him, to all the Lord's prophets, nay, and to all Christ's ministers, to proclaim comfort to God's people. 1.…

Isa 40:1-11. The Prologue

This first proclamation of glad tidings to Zion (see ch. Isa 41:27) is a passage of singular beauty, breathing the spirit of new-born hope and enthusiasm with which the…