Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth! Break out into singing, mountains! For Yahweh has comforted his people, and will have compassion on his afflicted.
Zion's fear of being forgotten is answered with images of enduring remembrance and compassion.
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View all filters →“Can a woman forget her nursing child, that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb? Yes, these may forget, yet I will not forget you!
Zion's fear of being forgotten is answered with images of enduring remembrance and compassion.
Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands. Your walls are continually before me.
Zion's fear of being forgotten is answered with images of enduring remembrance and compassion.
The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He awakens morning by morning, he awakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
The servant describes learning to listen and speaking a sustaining word to the weary.
“I, even I, am he who comforts you. Who are you, that you are afraid of man who shall die, and of the son of man who will be made as grass?
Promises of comfort to Zion imagine ruined places restored and fear answered by God's presence.
For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found in them, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Promises of comfort to Zion imagine ruined places restored and fear answered by God's presence.
For the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but my loving kindness will not depart from you, and my covenant of peace will not be removed,” says Yahweh who has mercy on you.
A restoration promise speaks of enduring loving kindness and peace for Zion's children.
All your children will be taught by Yahweh, and your children’s peace will be great.
A restoration promise speaks of enduring loving kindness and peace for Zion's children.
For the high and lofty One who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy, says: “I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also who is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
Words of restoration describe nearness to the contrite and peace for those who mourn.
I have seen his ways, and will heal him. I will lead him also, and restore comforts to him and to his mourners.
Words of restoration describe nearness to the contrite and peace for those who mourn.
I create the fruit of the lips: Peace, peace, to him who is far off and to him who is near,” says Yahweh; “and I will heal them.”
Words of restoration describe nearness to the contrite and peace for those who mourn.
As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Comfort for Jerusalem is compared to the care a mother gives her child.