1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and cry to herthat her warfare is ended,that her iniquity is pardoned,that she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins.
3 A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4 Every valley shall be lifted up,and every mountain and hill be made low;the uneven ground shall become level,and the rough places a plain.
5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”