Holy Scripture
Isaiah 40:2
A church father on this verse
“How is it that some receive at the Lord's hand double for their sins and the measure of their wickedness is doubly filled up, as in the correction of Israel, while the sins of others are removed by a sevenfold compensation? What is the measure of the Amorites that is not yet full? And how is the sinner either acquitte…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.
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In context
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.
— Isaiah 40:2 —
3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
4Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.