1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
2 “Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell herthat her time of warfare is over,that her punishment is completed.For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins.”
3 A voice cries out,“In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord;construct in the desert a road for our God.
4 Every valley must be elevated,and every mountain and hill leveled.The rough terrain will become a level plain,the rugged landscape a wide valley.