¹³ As to one who is comforted by his mother, so will I give you comfort: and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

³ For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.

⁷ But we were gentle among you, like a woman caring for her little ones:

⁶ If I let you go out of my thoughts, and if I do not put Jerusalem before my greatest joy, let my tongue be fixed to the roof of my mouth.

¹ Give comfort, give comfort, to my people, says your God.

¹⁸ But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.

¹⁹ And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.

¹⁰ Have joy with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you her lovers: take part in her joy, all you who are sorrowing for her:

⁴ Who gives us comfort in all our troubles, so that we may be able to give comfort to others who are in trouble, through the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.