2. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,and cry to herthat her warfare is ended,that her iniquity is pardoned,that she has received from the Lord’s handdouble for all her sins.
3. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
4. Every valley shall be lifted up,and every mountain and hill be made low;the uneven ground shall become level,and the rough places a plain.
5. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed,and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”
6. A voice says, “Cry!”And I said, “What shall I cry?” All flesh is grass,and all its beauty is like the flower of the field.
7. The grass withers, the flower fadeswhen the breath of the Lord blows on it;surely the people are grass.