Quotes About Comfort

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

Therefore now hear this, you afflicted one, drunken, but not with wine.

Break forth in joy, sing together, O ruins of Jerusalem, for the LORD has comforted His people; He has redeemed Jerusalem.

For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of oneís youth,” says your God.

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Those who walk uprightly enter into peace; they find rest, lying down in death.

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”

Who are these who fly like clouds, like doves to their shelters?

Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the LORD will be your everlasting light, and the days of your sorrow will cease.

to proclaim the year of the LORDís favor and the day of our Godís vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

to console the mourners in Zion—to give them a crown of beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, and a garment of praise for a spirit of despair. So they will be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified.

so that you may nurse and be satisfied at her comforting breasts; you may drink deeply and delight yourselves in her glorious abundance.

For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ëPeace, peace,í when there is no peace at all.

O Hope of Israel, its Savior in times of distress, why are You like a stranger in the land, like a traveler who stays but a night?

The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.

Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

Do not become a terror to me; You are my refuge in the day of disaster.

“Am I only a God nearby,” declares the LORD, “and not a God far away?”