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Jan 22, 2025 3:15 AM

  Isaiah 40:1 In-Context

  1 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.

  2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

  3 A voice of one calling: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LordOr "A voice of one calling in the wilderness:" / ""Prepare the way for the " Lord ; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.Hebrew; Septuagint "make straight the paths of our God"

  4 Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain.

  5 And the glory of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it together. For the mouth of the Lord has spoken."

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