Sinned With Every Limb and Comforted With Every Limb

"Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and call to her" (Isaiah 40:2). They sinned with the head, were stricken in the head, and are comforted in the head. They sinned with the head, "Let us appoint a head and return to Egypt" (Numbers 14:4). They were stricken in the head, "The whole head is sick" (Isaiah 1:5). They are comforted in the head, "Their king passes before them, and the LORD at their head" (Micah 2:13). They sinned with the eye, "With wanton eyes" (Isaiah 3:16); were stricken in the eye, "My eye, my eye runs down with water" (Lamentations 1:16); are comforted in the eye, "For eye to eye they shall see when the LORD returns to Zion" (Isaiah 52:8). They sinned with the ear, "They made their ears too heavy to hear" (Zechariah 7:11); were stricken in the ear, "Their ears shall be deaf" (Micah 7:16); are comforted in the ear, "Your ears shall hear a word" (Isaiah 30:21). They sinned with the nose, "Behold, they put the branch to their nose" (Ezekiel 8:17); were stricken with af, "I also (af) will do this to you" (Leviticus 26:16); are comforted with af, "And yet (af) for all that, when they are in the land of their enemies, I will not reject them" (Leviticus 26:44). They sinned with the mouth, "Every mouth speaks vileness" (Isaiah 9:16); were stricken with the mouth, "They devour Israel with open mouth" (Isaiah 9:11); are comforted with the mouth, "Then our mouth was filled with laughter and our tongue with song" (Psalms 126:2). They sinned with the tongue, "They bend their tongue" (Jeremiah 9:2); were stricken in the tongue, "The tongue of the suckling cleaves" (Lamentations 4:4); are comforted with the tongue, "And our tongue with song" (Psalms 126:2). They sinned with the heart, "They made their heart like adamant" (Zechariah 7:12); were stricken in the heart, "The whole heart is faint" (Isaiah 1:5); are comforted in the heart, "Speak to the heart of Jerusalem" (Isaiah 40:2). They sinned with the hand, "Your hands are full of blood" (Isaiah 1:15); were stricken in the hand, "The hands of compassionate women boiled their own children" (Lamentations 4:10); are comforted in the hand, "On that day the LORD will again set His hand a second time" (Isaiah 11:11). They sinned with the foot, "With their feet they jingle" (Isaiah 3:16); were stricken in the foot, "Before your feet stumble on the mountains of dusk" (Jeremiah 13:16); are comforted in the foot, "How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of the herald" (Isaiah 52:7). They sinned with "this," "For this Moses, the man" (Exodus 32:1); were stricken with "this," "For this our heart is faint" (Lamentations 5:17); are comforted with "this," "And it shall be said on that day, Behold, this is our God" (Isaiah 25:9). They sinned with "he," "They denied the LORD and said, It is not He" (Jeremiah 5:12); were stricken with "he," "He turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them" (Isaiah 63:10); are comforted with "he," "I, I am He who comforts you" (Isaiah 51:12). They sinned with fire, "The children gather wood and the fathers kindle the fire" (Jeremiah 7:18); were stricken with fire, "From on high He sent fire into my bones" (Lamentations 1:13); are comforted with fire, "And I will be to her, says the LORD, a wall of fire round about, and I will be for glory in her midst" (Zechariah 2:9). They sinned double, "Jerusalem has sinned grievously" (Lamentations 1:8); were stricken double, "For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins" (Isaiah 40:2); are comforted double, "Comfort, comfort My people" (Isaiah 40:1). Finished.