Isaiah 40:2

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

Cross References (35)

  • Zechariah 9:12 (18)

    Return to your stronghold, O prisoners of hope; even today I declare that I will restore to you double.

  • Isaiah 61:7 (15)

    Instead of shame, My people will have a double portion, and instead of humiliation, they will rejoice in their share; an

  • Hosea 2:14 (13)

    “Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

  • Jeremiah 33:8–9 (9)

    And I will cleanse them from all the iniquity they have committed against Me, and will forgive all their sins of rebelli

  • Revelation 18:6 (8)

    Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her o

  • Isaiah 43:25 (7)

    I, yes I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake and remembers your sins no more.

  • Jeremiah 16:18 (7)

    And I will first repay them double their iniquity and their sin, because they have defiled My land with the carcasses of

  • Isaiah 44:22 (7)

    I have blotted out your transgressions like a cloud, and your sins like a mist. Return to Me, for I have redeemed you.

  • Song of Solomon 2:11–13 (6)

    For now the winter is past; the rain is over and gone.

  • Jeremiah 29:11 (5)

    For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, to give you a future a

  • Isaiah 35:4 (5)

    Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retrib

  • Habakkuk 2:3 (5)

    For the vision awaits an appointed time; it testifies of the end and does not lie. Though it lingers, wait for it, since

  • Isaiah 12:1 (4)

    In that day you will say: “O LORD, I will praise You. Although You were angry with me, Your anger has turned away, and Y

  • Daniel 11:35 (4)

    Some of the wise will fall so that they may be refined, purified, and made spotless until the time of the end, for it wi

  • Psalms 102:13–28 (4)

    You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.

  • Isaiah 49:25 (3)

    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Even the captives of the mighty will be taken away, and the plunder of the tyrant w

  • Jeremiah 31:33–34 (3)

    “But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in

  • Psalms 32:1 (3)

    Of David. A Maskil. Blessed is he whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.

  • Isaiah 33:24 (3)

    And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.

  • Job 42:10–12 (3)

    After Job had prayed for his friends, the LORD restored his prosperity and doubled his former possessions.

  • Isaiah 41:11–13 (3)

    Behold, all who rage against you will be ashamed and disgraced; those who contend with you will be reduced to nothing an

  • Revelation 11:15–18 (3)

    Then the seventh angel sounded his trumpet, and loud voices called out in heaven: “The kingdom of the world has become t

  • Daniel 12:4 (2)

    But you, Daniel, shut up these words and seal the book until the time of the end. Many will roam to and fro, and knowled

  • Daniel 9:12 (2)

    You have carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing upon us a great disaster. For under

  • Genesis 34:3 (2)

    And his soul was drawn to Dinah, the daughter of Jacob. He loved the young girl and spoke to her tenderly.

  • Zechariah 1:15 (2)

    but I am fiercely angry with the nations that are at ease. For I was a little angry, but they have added to the calamity

  • Daniel 9:24–27 (2)

    Seventy weeks are decreed for your people and your holy city to stop their transgression, to put an end to sin, to make

  • Jeremiah 17:18 (2)

    Let my persecutors be put to shame, but do not let me be put to shame. Let them be terrified, but do not let me be terri

  • Daniel 12:9 (2)

    “Go on your way, Daniel,” he replied, “for the words are closed up and sealed until the time of the end.

  • Acts 1:7 (2)

    Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:22 (2)

    And Hezekiah encouraged all the Levites who performed skillfully before the LORD. For seven days they ate their assigned

  • Daniel 9:2 (2)

    in the first year of his reign, I, Daniel, understood from the sacred books, according to the word of the LORD to Jeremi

  • Galatians 4:4 (2)

    But when the time had fully come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

  • 1 Corinthians 6:9–11 (1)

    Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, n

  • Revelation 6:10–11 (0)

    And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge those who dwell upon the earth and