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Isaiah 40:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Isaiah 40:1-2
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
God’s People Are Comforted
40 [a]Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and cry to her
that her warfare[b] is ended,
that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.
Footnotes
- 40.1 Here begins the “Book of the Consolation of Israel,” as it has been beautifully called. It was written to comfort and console the people in their exile in Babylonia.
- Isaiah 40:2 Or time of service
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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