Comfort, Comfort, Ye My People

from Advent 2019 by Wes Crawford

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Author: Johann Olearius, 1671
Translated by Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Tune: Louis Burgeois (Genevan Psalter), 1551
based on Isaiah 40

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F
Comfort, comfort, ye my people,
Speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
Comfort those who sit in darkness,
Mourning 'neath their sorrow's load;
Am            Dm
Speak ye to Jerusalem
C      Bb     C
Of the peace that waits for them;
F
Tell her that her sins I cover,
Dm      Gm            C F
And her warfare now is o – ver.

F
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.
Am               Dm
She has suffered many a day,
C      Bb     C
Now her griefs have passed away,
F
God will change her pining sadness
Dm   Gm            C Dm
Into ever springing glad - ness.

Dm                       Bb
For the herald's voice is crying
Dm            Bb      F
In the desert far and near,
Dm              Bb
Bidding all men to repentance,
Dm                Bb     F
Since the kingdom now is here.
Am              Dm
O that warning cry obey!
C      Bb     C
Now prepare for God a way!
F
Let the valleys rise to meet Him,
Dm      Gm        C F
And the hills bow down to greet Him.

F
Make ye straight what long was crooked,
Make the rougher places plain:
Let your hearts be true and humble,
As befits His holy reign,
Am            Dm
For the glory of the Lord
C       Bb   C
Now o'er the earth is shed abroad,
F
And all flesh shall see the token
Dm       Gm      C F
That His Word is never bro – ken.

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from Advent 2019, released November 30, 2019

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