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God’s metaphor of a mother’s comfort

10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,     all you who love her; rejoice with her in joy,     all you who mourn over her; 11 that you may nurse and be satisfied     from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight     from her glorious abundance.”[a] 12 For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will extend peace…

A woman’s breasts are her glorious abundance

“that you may nurse and be satisfied     from her consoling breast; that you may drink deeply with delight     from her glorious abundance.”[a] — Isaiah 66:11 Footnotes: Isaiah 66:11 Or breast Notice that the Hebrew word rendered “glorious abundance” (kə·ḇō·w·ḏāh) can also mean “breast.” Same thing with Latin. The Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon (dictionary) defines the root word “kabowd”…