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Isa. 40:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Speak ye ρcomfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her σwarfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand doubles for all her sins.

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to the heart.

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appointed time.

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Isa. 61:7• ⁷Instead of your shame ye shall have double; instead of confusion they shall celebrate with joy their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. (Isa. 61:7)

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comfortably.

Heb. to the heart.

Gen. 34:3• ³And his soul fastened on Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the maiden, and spoke consolingly to the maiden. (Gen. 34:3)

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2 Chron. 30:22• ²²And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah the God of their fathers. (2 Chron. 30:22)

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Hos. 2:14• ¹⁴Therefore behold, I will allure her, and bring her into the wilderness, and speak to her heart. (Hos. 2:14)

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Hos. 2• (Hos. 2)

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warfare.

or, appointed time.

Psa. 102:13‑28• ¹³*Thou* wilt rise up, thou wilt have mercy upon Zion: for it is the time to be gracious to her, for the set time is come.
¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.
¹⁵And the nations shall fear the name of Jehovah, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶When Jehovah shall build up Zion, he will appear in his glory.
¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute one, and not despise their prayer.
¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come; and a people that shall be created shall praise Jah:
¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,
²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner, to loose those that are appointed to die;
²¹That the name of Jehovah may be declared in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem,
²²When the peoples shall be gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve Jehovah.
²³He weakened my strength in the way, he shortened my days.
²⁴I said, My *God, take me not away in the midst of my days! … Thy years are from generation to generation.
²⁵Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:
²⁶*They* shall perish, but *thou* continuest; and all of them shall grow old as a garment: as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed.
²⁷But thou art the Same, and thy years shall have no end.
²⁸The children of thy servants shall abide, and their seed shall be established before thee. (Psa. 102:13‑28)

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Song of Sol. 2:11‑13• ¹¹For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:
¹²The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;
¹³The fig-tree melloweth her winter figs, And the vines in bloom give forth their fragrance. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away! (Song of Sol. 2:11‑13)

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Jer. 29:11• ¹¹For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith Jehovah, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you in your latter end a hope. (Jer. 29:11)

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Dan. 9:2,24‑27• ²in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by the books that the number of the years, whereof the word of Jehovah came to Jeremiah the prophet, for the accomplishment of the desolations of Jerusalem, was seventy years.
²⁴Seventy weeks are apportioned out upon thy people and upon thy holy city, to close the transgression, and to make an end of sins, and to make expiation for iniquity, and to bring in the righteousness of the ages, and to seal the vision and prophet, and to anoint the holy of holies.
²⁵Know therefore and understand: From the going forth of the word to restore and to build Jerusalem unto Messiah, the Prince, are seven weeks, and sixty-two weeks. The street and the moat shall be built again, even in troublous times.
²⁶And after the sixty-two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, and shall have nothing; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with an overflow, and unto the end, war,--the desolations determined.
²⁷And he shall confirm a covenant with the many for one week; and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease, and because of the protection of abominations there shall be a desolator, even until that the consumption and what is determined shall be poured out upon the desolate. (Dan. 9:2,24‑27)

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Dan. 11:35• ³⁵And some of the wise shall fall, to try them, and to purge and to make them white, to the time of the end: for it shall yet be for the time appointed. (Dan. 11:35)

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Dan. 12:4,9• ⁴And thou, Daniel, close the words, and seal the book, till the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
⁹And he said, Go thy way, Daniel; for these words are closed and sealed till the time of the end. (Dan. 12:4,9)

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Hab. 2:3• ³For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but it hasteth to the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; for it will surely come, it will not delay. (Hab. 2:3)

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Acts 1:7• ⁷And he said to them, It is not yours to know times or seasons, which the Father has placed in his own authority; (Acts 1:7)

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Gal. 4:4• ⁴but when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, come of woman, come under law, (Gal. 4:4)

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Rev. 6:10‑11• ¹⁰and they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O sovereign Ruler, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell upon the earth?
¹¹And there was given to them, to each one a white robe; and it was said to them that they should rest yet a little while, until both their fellow-bondmen and their brethren, who were about to be killed as they, should be fulfilled. (Rev. 6:10‑11)

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Rev. 11:15‑18• ¹⁵And the seventh angel sounded his trumpet: and there were great voices in the heaven, saying, The kingdom of the world of our Lord and of his Christ is come, and he shall reign to the ages of ages.
¹⁶And the twenty-four elders, who sit on their thrones before God, fell upon their faces, and worshipped God,
¹⁷saying, We give thee thanks, Lord God Almighty, He who is, and who was, that thou hast taken thy great power and hast reigned.
¹⁸And the nations have been full of wrath, and thy wrath is come, and the time of the dead to be judged, and to give the recompense to thy servants the prophets, and to the saints, and to those who fear thy name, small and great; and to destroy those that destroy the earth. (Rev. 11:15‑18)

that her iniquity.

Isa. 12:1• ¹And in that day thou shalt say, Jehovah, I will praise thee; for though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou hast comforted me. (Isa. 12:1)

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Isa. 33:24• ²⁴And the inhabitant shall not say, I am sick: the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity. (Isa. 33:24)

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Isa. 43:25• ²⁵--I, I am He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins. (Isa. 43:25)

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Isa. 44:22• ²²I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee. (Isa. 44:22)

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Isa. 61:7• ⁷Instead of your shame ye shall have double; instead of confusion they shall celebrate with joy their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. (Isa. 61:7)

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Psa. 32:1• ¹Of David. Instruction. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered! (Psa. 32:1)

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Jer. 31:33‑34• ³³For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel, after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and will write it in their heart; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
³⁴And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know Jehovah; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith Jehovah: for I will pardon their iniquity, and their sin will I remember no more. (Jer. 31:33‑34)

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Jer. 33:8‑9• ⁸And 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 against me, and whereby they have transgressed against me.
⁹And it shall be to me a name of joy, a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear of all the good that I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the prosperity that I procure unto it. (Jer. 33:8‑9)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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Isa. 61:7• ⁷Instead of your shame ye shall have double; instead of confusion they shall celebrate with joy their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double; everlasting joy shall be unto them. (Isa. 61:7)

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Job 42:10‑12• ¹⁰And Jehovah turned the captivity of Job, when he had prayed for his friends; and Jehovah gave Job twice as much as he had before.
¹¹And all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, came to him, and they ate bread with him in his house, and they condoled with him, and comforted him concerning all the evil that Jehovah had brought upon him; and every one gave him a piece of money, and every one a golden ring.
¹²And Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning; and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses. (Job 42:10‑12)

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Jer. 16:18• ¹⁸But first I will recompense their iniquity and their sin double, because they have profaned my land with the carcases of their detestable things, and with their abominations have they filled mine inheritance. (Jer. 16:18)

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Jer. 17:18• ¹⁸Let them be ashamed that persecute me, but let not me be ashamed; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and break them with a double breaking. (Jer. 17:18)

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Dan. 9:12• ¹²And he hath performed his words, which he spoke against us, and against our judges that judged us, by bringing upon us a great evil; so that there hath not been done under the whole heaven as hath been done upon Jerusalem. (Dan. 9:12)

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Zech. 1:15• ¹⁵and I am wroth exceedingly with the nations that are at ease; for I was but a little wroth, and they helped forward the affliction. (Zech. 1:15)

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Zech. 9:12• ¹²Turn again to the stronghold, prisoners of hope! even to-day do I declare I will render double unto thee. (Zech. 9:12)

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Rev. 18:6• ⁶Recompense her even as she has recompensed; and double to her double, according to her works. In the cup which she has mixed, mix to her double. (Rev. 18:6)

• It is not that their iniquity is condoned or made light of but rather that its “double”, or appropriate punishment, has been exacted, and thus it has been pardoned, and the time of “warfare”, or suffering, is over. (“Isaiah 40” by F.B. Hole)

• The verse does not state how this “double” from the Lord’s hand has been received. The explanation of it lies in the subsequent chapters. As to the government of God, operating in this world, they receive it to the full in heavy chastisement, as indicated in chapters 57, 58 and 59. As to the more serious matter of God’s eternal judgment on sin, they receive it in the vicarious sufferings of their Messiah and Saviour, whom once they rejected. This we see in chapter 53. (“Isaiah 40” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her time of sufferingb is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardonedc; for she hath received of Jehovah’s hand double for all her sins.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "toil." see Note, Num. 4.3, Dan. 8.12.

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Lit. "satisfied," "discharged."