Comfort Comfort My People

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Comfort comfort my people. The passage read on this day of grief and reflection is isaiah 40 starting comfort comfort my people. And so this is what god has sent me to do here today for you. You heard it at the start of today s old testament reading from isaiah 40.

Comfort comfort my people says your god. Her iniquity has been pardoned. Speak tenderly to jerusalem and proclaim to her that her season of misery is over.

For a voice cries in the wilderness that says prepare the way of the lord. God wants his preachers to bring comfort to his people to speak tenderly to his church. Comfort comfort now my people is a paraphrase of isaiah 40 1 5 in which the prophet looks forward to the coming of christ.

2 with gentle words tender and kind assure jerusalem this chosen city from long ago that her battles are over. 1 comfort comfortmy people saysyour god 2 speak tenderly to jerusalem and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed. Nachamu is the hebrew word for comfort and so shabbat nachamu is also called the sabbath of consolation.

Speak tenderly to jerusalem etc. More specifically the coming of the forerunner of christ john the baptist is foretold. Shabbat nachamu is the sabbath that follows tisha b av the day marking the destruction of the temple.