2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Turn you to the strong hold, ye prisoners of hope: even to day do I declare that I will render double unto thee;
For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.
Therefore, behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak comfortably unto her.
And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. …
Reward her even as she rewarded you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-2)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. This did not only warrant, but enjoin, this prophet himself to encourage the good people who lived in his own time, who could not but have very melancholy apprehensions of things when they saw Judah and…
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