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Comfort for God’s People

40 Comfort, O comfort, My people,
    says your God.
Speak kindly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that her warfare has ended,
    that her iniquity has been pardoned,
that she has received of the hand of the Lord
    double for all her sins.

The voice of him who cries out,
“Prepare the way of the Lord
    in the wilderness,
make straight in the desert
    a highway for our God.

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