Isaiah 40:1-5, 25-26, 29-31

“Comfort ye . . .” (v. 1). The Lord is speaking to His people. God’s message: Warfare against you is over. Your iniquities are pardoned. At the moment in history in which God spoke these words, warfare against Jerusalem was far from complete. God’s word reveals that the transgressions of the physical seed of Abraham according to the flesh also had not come to an end when Isaiah recorded this message.