““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.””
Isaiah 40:2
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Connection with the defiling of Dinah
Genesis 50:21 uses it of Joseph, who "reassured his brothers and spoke kindly to them" (Genesis 50:21), and Ruth used it of Boaz: "you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant" (Ruth 2:13). God used the same phrase of Himself in Hosea, and He sent the prophets with it: "Speak tenderly to Jerusalem" (Isaiah 40:2).
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