“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your ¹  God.

As a mother consoles a child, ¹  so I will console you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

who comforts us in all our troubles ¹  so that we may be able to comfort those experiencing any trouble ²  with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

Raise me to a position of great honor! ¹  Turn and comfort me! ² 

“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. ¹ 

Therefore encourage one another with these words.

But God, who encourages ¹  the downhearted, encouraged ²  us by the arrival of Titus.

I remember your ancient regulations, ¹  O Lord, and console myself. ² 

They took the boy home alive and were greatly ¹  comforted.

“I have heard many things like these before. What miserable comforters ¹  are you all!

My eyes grow tired as I wait for your promise to be fulfilled. ¹  I say, ²  “When will you comfort me?”

The Lord then addressed good, comforting words to the angelic messenger who was speaking to me.

But if we are afflicted, ¹  it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort that you experience in your patient endurance of the same sufferings that we also suffer.

Their father Ephraim mourned for them many days and his brothers came to console him.

If ¹  I say, ²  “My bed will comfort me, ³  my couch will ease ⁴  my complaint,”

So how can you console me with your futile words? Nothing is left of your answers but deception!” ¹ 

This ¹  is what comforts me in my trouble, for your promise revives me. ² 

May your loyal love console me, as you promised your servant. ¹ 

So ¹  I again considered ²  all the oppression ³  that continually occurs ⁴  on earth. ⁵  This is what I saw: ⁶  The oppressed ⁷  were in tears, ⁸  but no one was comforting them; no one delivers ⁹  them from the power of their oppressors.

All his sons and daughters stood by ¹  him to console him, but he refused to be consoled. “No,” he said, “I will go to the grave mourning my son.” ²  So Joseph’s ³  father wept for him.