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40 “Comfort my people,” says our God. “Comfort them!
Encourage the people of Jerusalem.
Tell them they have suffered long enough
    and their sins are now forgiven.[a]
I have punished them in full for all their sins.”

(A)A voice cries out,
“Prepare in the wilderness a road for the Lord!
    Clear the way in the desert for our God!

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:2 and their sins are now forgiven; or they have paid for what they did.

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