Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version These double calamities have come upon you— who can comfort you?— ruin and destruction, famine and sword— who can console you? New Living Translation These two calamities have fallen on you: desolation and destruction, famine and war. And who is left to sympathize with you? Who is left to comfort you? English Standard Version These two things have happened to you— who will console you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword; who will comfort you? Berean Standard Bible These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? King James Bible 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? New King James Version These two things have come to you; Who will be sorry for you?— Desolation and destruction, famine and sword— By whom will I comfort you? New American Standard Bible These two things have happened to you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you? NASB 1995 These two things have befallen you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you? NASB 1977 These two things have befallen you; Who will mourn for you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you? Legacy Standard Bible These two things have befallen you; Who will console you? The devastation and destruction, famine and sword; How shall I comfort you? Amplified Bible These two tragedies have befallen you; Who will show sympathy for you and mourn with you? The desolation and destruction [on the land and city], famine and sword [on the inhabitants]; How shall I comfort you? Christian Standard Bible These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you? Holman Christian Standard Bible These two things have happened to you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? How can I comfort you? American Standard Version These two things are befallen thee, who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee? Contemporary English Version You have been destroyed by war and by famine; I cannot comfort you. English Revised Version These two things are befallen thee; who shall bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword; how shall I comfort thee? GOD'S WORD® Translation Twice as many disasters have happened to you. Who will feel sorry for you? Violence, destruction, famine, and war have happened to you. Who will comfort you? Good News Translation A double disaster has fallen on you: your land has been devastated by war, and your people have starved. There is no one to show you sympathy. International Standard Version "These twin things have come upon you (who can feel sorry for you?): ruin and destruction, famine and the sword— who can console you? Majority Standard Bible These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? NET Bible These double disasters confronted you. But who feels sorry for you? Destruction and devastation, famine and sword. But who consoles you? New Heart English Bible These two things have happened to you. Who will grieve for you? Desolation and destruction, and the famine and the sword. Who will console you? Webster's Bible Translation These two things have come to thee; who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? World English Bible These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you? Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThese two are meeting you, "" Who is moved for you? Spoiling and destruction, famine and sword! By whom do I comfort you? Young's Literal Translation These two are meeting thee, who is moved for thee? Spoiling and destruction -- Famine and sword, who -- I comfort thee? Smith's Literal Translation These two encountering thee; who shall be moved for thee? desolation and breaking, and famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort thee? Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThere are two things that have happened to thee: who shall be sorry for thee? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword, who shall comfort thee? Catholic Public Domain Version There are two things which have happened to you. Who will be saddened over you? There is devastation and destruction, and famine and sword. Who will console you? New American Bible Your misfortunes are double; who is there to grieve with you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword! Who is there to comfort you? New Revised Standard Version These two things have befallen you —who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword— who will comfort you? Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThese two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you? You shall have plunder, destruction, famine, and sword; who shall comfort you? Peshitta Holy Bible Translated Two things are coming to you, for which you will grieve. Upon you will come looting and ruin, and famine and the sword. Who will comfort you? OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917These two things are befallen thee; Who shall bemoan thee? Desolation and destruction, And the famine and the sword; How shall I comfort thee? Brenton Septuagint Translation Wherefore these things are against thee; who shall sympathize with thee in thy grief? downfall, and destruction, famine, and sword: who shall comfort thee? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Cup of Wrath…18Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand. 19These pairs have befallen you: devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? 20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.… Cross References Lamentations 1:12-13 Is 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? / He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long. Jeremiah 4:30-31 And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life. / For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!” Jeremiah 15:5-6 Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem? Who will mourn for you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare? / You have forsaken Me, declares the LORD. You have turned your back. So I will stretch out My hand against you and I will destroy you; I am weary of showing compassion. Ezekiel 5:12-13 A third of your people will die by plague or be consumed by famine within you, a third will fall by the sword outside your walls, and a third I will scatter to every wind and unleash a sword behind them. / And when My anger is spent and I have vented My wrath against them, I will be appeased. And when I have spent My wrath on them, they will know that I, the LORD, in My zeal have spoken. Hosea 13:9-10 You are destroyed, O Israel, because you are against Me—against your helper. / Where is your king now to save you in all your cities, and the rulers to whom you said, “Give me a king and princes”? Zechariah 1:12 Then the angel of the LORD said, “How long, O LORD of Hosts, will You withhold mercy from Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, with which You have been angry these seventy years?” Deuteronomy 32:25 Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man. Psalm 69:20 Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one. Jeremiah 30:12-15 For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous. / There is no one to plead your cause, no remedy for your sores, no recovery for you. / All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. ... Nahum 3:7 Then 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?” Matthew 23:37-38 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. Luke 19:41-44 As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... Revelation 18:7-8 As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” 2 Corinthians 1:8-9 We do not want you to be unaware, brothers, of the hardships we encountered in the province of Asia. We were under a burden far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. / Indeed, we felt we were under the sentence of death, in order that we would not trust in ourselves, but in God, who raises the dead. 1 Thessalonians 5:3 While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. Treasury of Scripture These two things are come to you; who shall be sorry for you? desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword: by whom shall I comfort you? two things Isaiah 47:9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments. Ezekiel 14:21 For thus saith the Lord GOD; How much more when I send my four sore judgments upon Jerusalem, the sword, and the famine, and the noisome beast, and the pestilence, to cut off from it man and beast? are come. Job 2:11 Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that was come upon him, they came every one from his own place; Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite: for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to comfort him. Psalm 69:20 Reproach hath broken my heart; and I am full of heaviness: and I looked for some to take pity, but there was none; and for comforters, but I found none. Jeremiah 9:17-21 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come: … destruction. Isaiah 22:4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. Isaiah 61:2 To proclaim the acceptable year of the LORD, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn; Job 42:11 Then came there unto him all his brethren, and all his sisters, and all they that had been of his acquaintance before, and did eat bread with him in his house: and they bemoaned him, and comforted him over all the evil that the LORD had brought upon him: every man also gave him a piece of money, and every one an earring of gold. Jump to Previous Befallen Bemoan Calamities Comfort Console Death Desolation Destruction Devastation Double Famine Food Meeting Mourn Moved Need Ruin Sorry Spoiling Sword Wasting WeepingJump to Next Befallen Bemoan Calamities Comfort Console Death Desolation Destruction Devastation Double Famine Food Meeting Mourn Moved Need Ruin Sorry Spoiling Sword Wasting WeepingIsaiah 51 1. An exhortation after the pattern of Abraham, to trust in Christ3. By reason of his comfortable promises, 4. Of his righteous salvation 7. And man's mortality 9. Christ by his sanctified arm defends his from the fear of man 17. He bewails the afflictions of Jerusalem 21. And promises deliverance These pairs have befallen you: The phrase indicates a duality of calamities that have come upon the people. In the context of Isaiah, this refers to the judgment and suffering experienced by the Israelites due to their disobedience to God. The use of "pairs" suggests completeness in the afflictions, emphasizing the totality of their distress. This reflects the covenant curses outlined in Deuteronomy 28, where disobedience leads to various forms of suffering. devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will grieve for you? Who can comfort you? Persons / Places / Events 1. IsaiahA major prophet in the Old Testament, Isaiah is the author of the book. He prophesied to the Kingdom of Judah during a time of moral and spiritual decline. 2. Judah The southern kingdom of Israel, which faced judgment and exile due to its disobedience to God. Isaiah's prophecies often addressed the people of Judah. 3. Devastation and Destruction These terms refer to the calamities that have come upon Judah as a result of their rebellion against God. In Hebrew, "devastation" (shod) and "destruction" (sheber) emphasize the severity of their plight. 4. Famine and Sword These are specific judgments that have befallen Judah. "Famine" (ra'av) indicates a lack of sustenance, while "sword" (cherev) symbolizes warfare and violence. 5. Consolation The rhetorical question "Who will console you?" highlights the absence of comforters for Judah, pointing to their desperate need for divine intervention. Teaching Points The Consequences of DisobedienceIsaiah 51:19 serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. Just as Judah faced devastation and destruction, we too can experience spiritual desolation when we stray from God's path. The Need for Divine Consolation The rhetorical question about who will console Judah points to the ultimate need for God's comfort. In our own lives, we must seek God's presence and consolation in times of trouble. Hope Amidst Judgment While the verse highlights judgment, it also implicitly points to the hope of restoration. God's discipline is not without purpose; it is meant to bring us back to Him. The Role of Community in Comfort The absence of comforters for Judah underscores the importance of community. As believers, we are called to be sources of comfort and support for one another. Trust in God's Sovereignty Even in the face of devastation, we must trust in God's sovereignty and His ultimate plan for redemption and restoration.(19) These two things . . .--The two things are amplified into four: (1) the two effects, and (2) the two causes. Who shall be sorry for thee?--Better, Be sorry with thee, or who shall console thee? Even Jehovah is represented as failing, or seeming to fail, in finding a comforter for such affliction. Verse 19. - These two things. What are the "two things," it is asked, since four are mentioned - desolation, and destruction, and the famine, and the sword? The right answer seems to be that of Aben Ezra and Kimchi, that the two things are "desolation," or rather "wasting" within, produced by "famine;" and "destruction" without, produced by "the sword." Who shall be sorry for thee? rather, who will mourn with thee? Jerusalem is without friends; no man condoles with her over her misfortunes. God alone feels compassion; but even he scarce knows how to comfort. By whom? rather, how? (comp. Amos 7:2, 5).Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Theseהֵ֙נָּה֙ (hên·nāh) Pronoun - third person feminine plural Strong's 2007: Themselves pairs שְׁתַּ֤יִם (šə·ta·yim) Number - fd Strong's 8147: Two (a cardinal number) have befallen you: קֹֽרְאֹתַ֔יִךְ (qō·rə·’ō·ṯa·yiḵ) Verb - Qal - Participle - feminine plural construct | second person feminine singular Strong's 7122: To encounter, befall devastation הַשֹּׁ֧ד (haš·šōḏ) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7701: Violence, havoc, devastation, ruin and destruction, וְהַשֶּׁ֛בֶר (wə·haš·še·ḇer) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7667: A breaking, fracture, crushing, breach, crash famine וְהָרָעָ֥ב (wə·hā·rā·‘āḇ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 7458: Famine, hunger and sword. וְהַחֶ֖רֶב (wə·ha·ḥe·reḇ) Conjunctive waw, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 2719: Drought, a cutting instrument, as a, knife, sword Who מִ֖י (mî) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix will grieve for you? יָנ֣וּד (yā·nūḏ) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 5110: To nod, waver, to wander, flee, disappear, to console, deplore, taunt Who מִ֥י (mî) Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix can comfort you? אֲנַחֲמֵֽךְ׃ (’ă·na·ḥă·mêḵ) Verb - Piel - Imperfect - first person common singular | second person feminine singular Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge Links Isaiah 51:19 NIVIsaiah 51:19 NLT Isaiah 51:19 ESV Isaiah 51:19 NASB Isaiah 51:19 KJV Isaiah 51:19 BibleApps.com Isaiah 51:19 Biblia Paralela Isaiah 51:19 Chinese Bible Isaiah 51:19 French Bible Isaiah 51:19 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Isaiah 51:19 These two things have happened to you (Isa Isi Is) |
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