GOD’S PEOPLE COMFORTED

40 “Comfort, comfort my people,”t

says your God.

2 “Speak tenderly toA Jerusalem,

and announce to her

that her time of hard service is over,

her iniquityu has been pardoned,v

and she has received from the Lord’s hand

double for all her sins.”w

3 A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;x

make a straight highway for our God in the desert.y