Comfort, comfort, O my people

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Comfort, comfort, O my people,
speak of peace, now says our God.
Comfort those who sit in darkness,
mourning 'neath their sorrows' load.

Speak unto Jerusalem
of the peace that waits for them.
Tell of all the sins I cover,
and that warfare now is over.

Hark, the voice of one who's crying
in the desert far and near,
bidding all to full repentance
since the kingdom now is here.

O that warning cry obey!
Now prepare for God a way.
Let the valleys rise to meet God
and the hills bow down to greet God.

O make straight what long was crooked,
make the rougher places plain.
Let your hearts be true and humble,
as befits God's holy reign.

For the glory of the Lord
now o'er earth is shed abroad.
And all flesh shall see the token
that God's word is never broken.

Song Details

Title: Comfort, comfort, O my people
Text: Johannes Olearius, 1671 tr. Catherine Winkworth, 1863
Tune: GENEVA 42 (FREU DICH SEHR)
Music: Louis Bourgeois, 1551; arr. Claude Goudimel, 1565
Key: F major
Meter: 87.87.77.88
Date Added: 2021/02/07

Alternate words

As the deer with eager yearning