1 Comfort, O comfort, My people,says your God.
2 Speak kindly to Jerusalem,and cry to herthat her warfare has ended,that her iniquity has been pardoned,that she has received of the hand of the Lorddouble for all her sins.
3 The voice of him who cries out,“Prepare the way of the Lordin the wilderness,make straight in the deserta highway for our God.
4 Let every valley be lifted up,and every mountain and hill be made low,and let the rough ground become a plain,and the rough places a plain;