Isaiah 40:1-3

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God’s People Are Comforted

40 Comfort, comfort my people,
says your God.
²Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that her warfare^[a] is ended,
    that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord’s hand
    double for all her sins.

³A voice cries:
“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord,
Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

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