1Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.2Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to herthat her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for,that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3A voice of one calling:“In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord;make straight in the desert a highway for our God.4Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low;the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.
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