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Isaiah 51:19

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

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ASV

These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee?

KJV

These two things are come unto thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee?

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
שְׁתַּ֤יִםshe.Ta.yimtwo [things]H8147 →
הֵ֙נָּה֙he.nahtheyH2007 →
קֹֽרְאֹתַ֔יִךְko.re.'o.Ta.yikh[have] happened to youH7122 →
מִ֖יmiwho?H4310 →
יָנ֣וּדya.Nuddoes he show sympathyH5110 →
לָ֑ךְLakhto you
הַשֹּׁ֧דha.Shodthe devastationH7701 →
וְהַשֶּׁ֛בֶרve.ha.She.verand the destructionH7667 →
וְהָרָעָ֥בve.ha.ra.'Avand the famineH7458 →
וְהַחֶ֖רֶבve.ha.Che.revand the swordH2719 →
מִ֥יmiwho?H4310 →
אֲנַחֲמֵֽךְ׃'a.na.cha.Mekhdo I comfort youH5162 →

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Jeremiah 15:5Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?Nahum 3:7Then all who see you will recoil from you and say, ‘Nineveh is devastated; who will grieve for her?’ Where can I find comforters for you?”Amos 7:2And when the locusts had eaten every green plant in the land, I said, “Lord GOD, please forgive! How will Jacob survive, since he is so small?”Isaiah 47:9These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.Lamentations 3:47Panic and pitfall have come upon us—devastation and destruction.Jeremiah 24:10And I will send against them sword and famine and plague, until they have perished from the land that I gave to them and their fathers.’”Psalms 69:20Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.Isaiah 61:2to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,2 Corinthians 7:13On account of this, we are encouraged. In addition to our own encouragement, we were even more delighted by the joy of Titus. For his spirit has been refreshed by all of you.Job 42:11All his brothers and sisters and prior acquaintances came and dined with him in his house. They consoled him and comforted him over all the adversity that the LORD had brought upon him. And each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.Lamentations 1:9Her 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!Lamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?2 Corinthians 7:6–7But God, who comforts the downcast, comforted us by the arrival of Titus,Ezekiel 14:21For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?Jeremiah 9:17–21This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.Job 2:11Now 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.Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.Isaiah 22:4Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

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