Bible Verses About Consolation Under Affliction: Promised

For the LORD will comfort Zion and will look with compassion on all her ruins; He will make her wilderness like Eden and her desert like the garden of the LORD. Joy and gladness will be found in her, thanksgiving and melodious song.

“I, even I, am He who comforts you. Why should you be afraid of mortal man, of a son of man who withers like grass?

As a mother comforts her son, so will I comfort you, and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

Yet, behold, some survivors will be left in it—sons and daughters who will be brought out. They will come out to you, and when you see their conduct and actions, you will be comforted regarding the disaster I have brought upon Jerusalem—all that I have brought upon it.

They will bring you consolation when you see their conduct and actions, and you will know that it was not without cause that I have done all these things within it,’ declares the Lord GOD.”

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

Proclaim further that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘My cities will again overflow with prosperity; the LORD will again comfort Zion and choose Jerusalem.’”