Author: Johann Olearius, 1671
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Tune: Louis Burgeois (Genevan Psalter), 1551
based on Isaiah 40
lyrics
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Comfort, comfort, ye my people,
Speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
Comfort those who sit in darkness,
Mourning 'neath their sorrow's load;
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Speak ye to Jerusalem
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Of the peace that waits for them;
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Tell her that her sins I cover,
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And her warfare now is o – ver.
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Yea, her sins our God will pardon,
Blotting out each dark misdeed;
All that well deserved His anger
He will no more see nor heed.
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She has suffered many a day,
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Now her griefs have passed away,
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God will change her pining sadness
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Into ever springing glad - ness.
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For the herald's voice is crying
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In the desert far and near,
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Bidding all men to repentance,
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Since the kingdom now is here.
Am Dm
O that warning cry obey!
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Now prepare for God a way!
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Let the valleys rise to meet Him,
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And the hills bow down to greet Him.
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Make ye straight what long was crooked,
Make the rougher places plain:
Let your hearts be true and humble,
As befits His holy reign,
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For the glory of the Lord
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Now o'er the earth is shed abroad,
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And all flesh shall see the token
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That His Word is never bro – ken.
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