““Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.”
Isaiah 40:1
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Connection with Esau comforting himself
The Hebrew for comfort here is nacham, the verb Esau turned on himself when he plotted to kill Jacob. The Greek Bible translated it with parakaleo (G3870), the verb behind paraklesis (G3874), Paul's word for the comfort God gives in Christ, comfort and encouragement in one word.
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To know God is to bring Him what has happened and let Him speak to the heart, and in Genesis 34 Jacob's house never asked Him. The God they never asked is the God who said, "Comfort, comfort My people" (Isaiah 40:1), and who went after a people who had wronged Him to speak tenderly to them in the wilderness.
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