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Text: | Comfort, Comfort Ye My People |
Author: | Johann Olearius |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth |
Tune: | GENEVAN 42 |
1 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.
2 Yea, her sins our God will pardon,
blotting out each dark misdeed;
all that well deserved His anger
He no more will see nor heed.
She hath suffered many a day,
now her griefs have passed away;
God will change her pining sadness
into ever springing gladness.
3 For Elijah'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.
4 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.
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Comfort, comfort ye My people |
Title: | Comfort, Comfort Ye My People |
Author: | Johann Olearius |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth (1863) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.8 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2017 |
Topic: | Jesus Christ: Advent |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GENEVAN 42 |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.8.8 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Genevan Psalter, 1551 |