when Israel is in the extremity of her anguish, that the Divine Voice sounds from heaven in strains of music, “Comfort ye, comfort ye, My people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem.” “I am He that comforteth you.” “As one whom his mother comforteth, will I comfort you.” It will come mediately. What the prophet was as the spokesman of Jehovah, uttering to the people in human tones the inspirations that came to him from God, so to us is the great Prophet, whose shoe-latchet the noblest