Isaiah 40:1-3

Christian Standard Bible

40 “Comfort, comfort my people,”^(A)
says your God.
² “Speak tenderly to^[a] Jerusalem,
and announce to her
that her time of hard service is over,
her iniquity^(B) has been pardoned,^(C)
and she has received from the Lord’s hand
double for all her sins.”^(D)

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