The Lord Comforts His People

This is what the Lord says:

"In the time of My favor

I will answer you,

and in the day of salvation

I will help you;

I will keep you

and make you to be a covenant for the people,

to restore the land

and to reassign its desolate inheritances,

to say to the captive, 'Come out,'

and to those in darkness, 'Be free!'

(Isaiah 49:98-9)

Shout for joy, O heavens;

rejoice, O earth;

burst into song, O mountains!

For the Lord comforts His people

and will have compassion on His afflicted ones.

(Isaiah 49:13)

But you will not leave in haste or go in flight;

for the Lord will go before you,

the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

(Isaiah 52:12)