Isaiah 40:2-4
1599 Geneva Bible
2 Speak comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her [a]warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she hath received of the Lord’s hand [b]double for all her sins.
3 A [c]voice crieth in the [d]wilderness, [e]Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a path for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every [f]mountain and hill shall be made low; and the crooked shall be straight, and the rough places plain.
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- Isaiah 40:2 The time of her affliction.
- Isaiah 40:2 Meaning, sufficient, as Isa. 61:7, and full correction, or double grace, whereas she deserved double punishment.
- Isaiah 40:3 To wit, of the Prophets.
- Isaiah 40:3 That is, in Babylon and other places, where they were kept in captivity, and misery.
- Isaiah 40:3 Meaning Cyrus and Darius which should deliver God’s people out of captivity, and make them a ready way to Jerusalem: and this was fully accomplished, when John the Baptist brought tidings of Jesus Christ’s coming, who was the true deliverer of his Church from sin and Satan, Matt. 3:3.
- Isaiah 40:4 Whatsoever may let or hinder this deliverance, shall be removed.
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