Isaiah 40:1-3

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40 ^(A)Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
^2 (B)Speak tenderly to Jerusalem,
    and cry to her
that ^(C)her warfare^[a] is ended,
    that her iniquity is pardoned,
that she has received from the Lord's hand
    double for all her sins.
^3 (D)A voice cries:^[b]
(E)“In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord;
    ^(F)make straight in the desert a highway for our God.