God’s People Comforted

40 “Comfort, comfort My people,”(A)
says your God.
“Speak tenderly to[a] Jerusalem,
and announce to her
that her time of forced labor is over,
her iniquity(B) has been pardoned,(C)
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”(D)

A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;(E)
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.(F)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:2 Lit Speak to the heart of

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