1“Comfort, comfort My people,”
says your God.
2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
and proclaim to herthat her forced labor has been completed;
her iniquity has been pardoned.
For she has received from the hand of the LORD
double for all her sins.”
3A voice of one calling:
“Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness;make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
— Isaiah 40:1-3