“These two things have happened to you— who will grieve with you?— desolation and destruction, and famine and the sword. How can I comfort you?”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Isaiah 51 contains 23 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.