Yesaya 8:5

8:5 The Lord spoke to me again:

Yesaya 38:4

38:4 The Lord told Isaiah, ¹ 

Yesaya 40:1

The Lord Returns to Jerusalem

40:1 “Comfort, comfort my people,”

says your ²  God.

[38:4]  ¹ tn Heb “and the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, saying.”

[40:1]  ² tn The pronominal suffix is second masculine plural. The identity of the addressee is uncertain: (1) God’s people may be addressed, or (2) the unidentified heralds commanded to comfort Jerusalem.