Add parallel Print Page Options

Speak kindly to the people in Jerusalem.
    Tell them that their time of trouble has now finished.
Their punishment has been enough.
    The Lord has made them pay for their sins.
    He has made them pay twice.’

Somebody's voice is shouting,

‘Prepare a way in the wilderness for the Lord.
    Make a straight road in the desert for our God.
Raise up every valley,
    and bring down every mountain and hill.
The rough ground and the ground that has rocks
    will become flat.

Read full chapter