Isaiah 40:1-3 New King James Version (NKJV)

1. “Comfort, yes, comfort My people!”Says your God.

2. “Speak comfort to Jerusalem, and cry out to her,That her warfare is ended,That her iniquity is pardoned;For she has received from the Lord’s handDouble for all her sins.”

3. The voice of one crying in the wilderness:“Prepare the way of the Lord;Make straight in the desertA highway for our God.

Isaiah 40