Comfort you, comfort you my people,
says your God.
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Eusebius of Caesarea
AD 339
God did not approve of Hezekiah’s proposal. The fact that he mentioned only himself in his prayer and not the people was blameworthy. That is why the prophet says in what follows, “Comfort my people, says the Lord.”