Comfort

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.

Now therefore get up! Go out and speak comfort to your servants, for I swear by the LORD that if you do not go out, not a man will remain with you tonight. This will be worse for you than all the adversity that has befallen you from your youth until now!”

Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

It still brings me comfort, and joy through unrelenting pain, that I have not denied the words of the Holy One.

When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

Are my days not few? Withdraw from me, that I may have a little comfort,

So how can you comfort me with empty words? For your answers remain full of falsehood.”

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.

You will increase my honor and comfort me once again.

This is my comfort in affliction, that Your promise has given me life.

I remember Your judgments of old, O LORD, and in them I find comfort.

May Your loving devotion comfort me, I pray, according to Your promise to Your servant.

My eyes fail, looking for Your promise; I ask, “When will You comfort me?”

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

“Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you?

I have seen his ways, but I will heal him; I will guide him and restore comfort to him and his mourners,

…to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them.

Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”

For idols speak deceit and diviners see illusions; they tell false dreams and offer empty comfort. Therefore the people wander like sheep, oppressed for lack of a shepherd.

But woe to you who are rich, for you have already received your comfort.

But he who prophesies speaks to men for their edification, encouragement, and comfort.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

…who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

…who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

For just as the sufferings of Christ overflow to us, so also through Christ our comfort overflows.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

If we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which accomplishes in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we experience.

And our hope for you is sure, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you will share in our comfort.

So instead, you ought to forgive and comfort him, so that he will not be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow.

…and not only by his arrival, but also by the comfort he had received from you. He told us about your longing, your mourning, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced all the more.

Therefore if you have any encouragement in Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any affection and compassion,

Jesus, who is called Justus, also sends greetings. These are the only Jews among my fellow workers for the kingdom of God, and they have been a comfort to me.

Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who by grace has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope,