Isaiah 40:1

1. Comfort ye This chapter proleptically opens the scene, as it was laid in Babylon during the exile, of God’s coming deliverance to his people. The interminable ring of “a remnant shall be saved,” still sounds loud and clear. The voice is to the prophet and his partners and successors, “Comfort ye.” The charge to “comfort” is re-doubled, denoting no cessation, no letting up, of this duty, for God is in earnest, and his promise means continuance of consolation till the exile is over.

My people The humble remnant, who are to be purified wholly of every idolatrous taint, and who shall be worthy of complete deliverance.

Your God Emphatic of “your;” because the humbled people are, and shall be accounted worthy to be, his a people to whom he twice commands to announce a perpetual consolation.