For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
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Gill's Exposition
For the Lord shall comfort Zion,.... The church, by his Spirit, in the ministration of the word, and administration of ordinances; by the donation of the blessings of grace, and by the application of…
Barnes' Notes
For the Lord shall comfort Zion - On the word ‘Zion,’ see the notes at Isa 1:8. The meaning here is, that he would again restore it from its ruins. The argument is drawn from the statement in the…
Observe, 1. How the people of God are here described, to whom the word of this consolation is sent and who are called upon to hearken to it, Isa 51:1. They are such as follow after righteousness, such…
Cambridge Bible
shall comfort … will comfort … will make lit. as R.V. hath comforted … hath made (perf. of certainty).
like the garden of theLord Gen 13:10; cf. Eze 28:13; Eze 31:8 f.
joy and gladness &c. Cf. Jer…
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