Isaiah 66:13

“As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, &c.] Though ordinances are means, and ministers are instruments of comfort, God is the sole efficient cause of it; and very wonderful it is that he should condescend to administer it, since he is an immense and infinite Being, the high and lofty One, possessed of all perfections, and yet deigns to revive the spirit of the humble and contrite; since he is the Maker of heaven and earth, and all things, and those he comforts are dust and ashes; and especially since they have sinned against him, and rendered themselves abominable to him; and moreover, seeing he is so strictly just and righteous, and they also continually guilty of…”

“mother-- (Isa 49:15). comforteth-- (Isa 40:1-2).”

“As one whom his mother comforteth - See the notes at Isaiah 49:15, where the same image occurs. return to 'Top of Page'”

“As one whom, &c. - That is, in the most tender, and compassionate way. Isaiah 66:14”

“66:13 I will comfort you: Cp. 40:1.”

“one: Isa 51:3; Th1 2:7 ye shall: Isa 66:10, Isa 65:18, Isa 65:19; Psa 137:6 Isaiah 66:14”

“The prophet now looks upon the members of the church as having grown up, as it were, from childhood to maturity: they suck like a child, and are comforted like a grown-up son. "Like a man whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you, and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem." Hitzig says that 'ı̄sh is not well chosen; but how easily could the prophet have written bēn (son), as in Isa 49:15! He writes 'ı̄sh, however, not indeed in the unmeaning sense in which the lxx has taken it, viz., ὡς εἴ τινα μήτηρ παρακαλέσει, but looking upon the people, whom he had previously thought of as children, as standing before him as one man. Israel is now like a man who has escaped from bondage and…”