1. Our God has said:“Encourage my people!Give them comfort.
2. Speak kindly to Jerusalemand announce:Your slavery is past;your punishment is over.I, the Lord, made you paydouble for your sins.”
3. Someone is shouting:“Clear a path in the desert!Make a straight roadfor the Lord our God.
4. Fill in the valleys;flatten every hilland mountain.Level the roughand rugged ground.
5. Then the glory of the Lordwill appear for all to see.The Lord has promised this!”
6. Someone told me to shout,and I asked,“What should I shout?”We humans are merely grass,and we last no longerthan wild flowers.
7. At the Lord's command,flowers and grass disappear,and so do we.
8. Flowers and grass fade away,but what our God has saidwill never change.
9. There is good newsfor the city of Zion.Shout it as loud as you canfrom the highest mountain.Don't be afraid to shoutto the towns of Judah,“Your God is here!”