1 “Comfort, comfort My people,” says your God.
2 “Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and announce to herthat her time of forced labor is over,her iniquity has been pardoned, and she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins.”
3 A voice of one crying out:Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
4 Every valley will be lifted up,and every mountain and hill will be leveled;the uneven ground will become smoothand the rough places, a plain.