1 “Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.
2 “Speak comfortably to Jerusalem; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”
3 The voice of one who calls out,“Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness!Make a level highway in the desert for our God.
4 Every valley shall be exalted,and every mountain and hill shall be made low.The uneven shall be made level,and the rough places a plain.
5 the Lord’s glory shall be revealed,and all flesh shall see it together;for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it.”
6 The voice of one saying, “Cry!”One said, “What shall I cry?”“All flesh is like grass,and all its glory is like the flower of the field.
7 The grass withers,the flower fades,because the Lord’s breath blows on it.Surely the people are like grass.