Comfort, Comfort Ye My People Lyrics

Comfort, comfort ye my people

Speak ye peace, thus saith our God

Comfort those who sit in darkness

Mourning 'neath their sorrow's load

Speak ye to Jerusalem

Of the peace that waits for them

Tell her that her sins I cover

And her warfare now is over

Yea, her sins our God will pardon

Blotting out each dark misdeed

All that well deserved his anger

He no more will see or heed

She hath suffered many a day

Now her griefs have passed away

God will change her pining sadness

Into ever-springing gladness

For the herald's voice is crying

In the desert far and near

Bidding all men to repentance

Since the kingdom now is here

O that warning cry obey

Now prepare for God a way

Let the valleys rise to meet him

And the hills bow down to greet him

Make ye straight what long was crooked

Make the rougher places plain

Let your hearts be true and humble

As befits his holy reign

For the glory of the Lord

Now o'er earth is shed abroad

And all flesh shall see the token

That his word is never broken