Quotes about Comfort

Their father Ephraim mourned for many days, and his relatives came to comfort him.

so the king said to me, “Why is your face sad, though you are not ill? This could only be sadness of the heart.” I was overwhelmed with fear

Nehemiah the governor, Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who were instructing the people said to all of them, “This day is holy to the LORD your God. Do not mourn or weep.” For all the people were weeping as they heard the words of the Law.

And the Levites calmed all the people, saying, “Be still, since today is holy. Do not grieve.”

Now when Job’s three friends—Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite—heard about all this adversity that had come upon him, each of them came from his home, and they met together to go and sympathize with Job and comfort him.

Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

For now I would be lying down in peace; I would be asleep and at rest

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

He sets the lowly on high, so that mourners are lifted to safety.

For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.

You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.