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Time after Pentecost · Proper 9 · Year C

Isaiah 66:10-14

Nursed and Comforted by Mother Jerusalem

July 9, 2028

Nursing Madonna (Madonna del Latte), Antonio da Correggio
Nursing Madonna (Madonna del Latte), Antonio da Correggio, c. 1524Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Correggio's Virgin feeding the child, painted with the soft modelling and intimate scale he used for private devotional pictures.As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you: Isaiah 66 uses the nursing image deliberately, and this is it.Antonio da CorreggioA painter from Parma who dissolved ceilings into open sky and invented effects of light that the Baroque spent a century catching up with.Museum of Fine Arts, BudapestHungary's collection of international art, built on the Esterházy holdings bought by the state in 1870.Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
LSB Three-Year Lectionary
GospelLuke 10:1-20Lk 10:1-20
EpistleGal. 6:1-10, 14-18Gal 6:1-10, 14-18
Old TestamentIsa. 66:10-14Is 66:10-14
PsalterPs. 66:1-7Ps 66:1-7

Overview & Insights

"As a mother comforts her child, so I will comfort you." (Isaiah 66:13)

The prophet calls the exiles to rejoice with Jerusalem, pictured as a nursing mother whose breasts will satisfy and comfort her children, as God promises to extend peace like a river and comfort the people like a mother comforts her child.

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Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 66:10-14Commentary on Is 66:10-14 Working Preacher

Reads the parental imagery as a threefold assurance of comfort after exile.

Isaiah 66 CommentaryIs 66 Commentary Enduring Word · David Guzik

Covers the nursing and dandling imagery in the context of Isaiah's closing chapter.

Isaiah 66:10 CommentariesIs 66:10 Commentaries BibleHub

Collects classic commentators on the call to rejoice with Jerusalem.

Isaiah 66 - Barnes' NotesIs 66 - Barnes' Notes StudyLight

Notes the shift from judgment earlier in the chapter to maternal comfort here.

Background & Word Study

Isaiah 66:10 InterlinearIs 66:10 Interlinear BibleHub

Shows the Hebrew behind the image of nursing at Jerusalem's comforting breasts.

Isaiah 40-66Is 40-66 BibleProject

Overview video covering the closing chapters of Isaiah this oracle belongs to.

Isaiah 66:10Is 66:10 Sefaria

Hebrew text of the oracle alongside translation.

The Church Fathers

Isaiah 66Is 66 Catena

Patristic readings on Jerusalem's restoration and God's motherly comfort.

Art & Music

Art, music and hymns for Isaiah 66:10-14Art, music and hymns for Is 66:10-14 Vanderbilt

The Vanderbilt Divinity Library index of visual art, hymns and music chosen for this reading.

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