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Text: | Comfort, Comfort Ye My People |
Author: | Johann Olearius |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth |
Tune: | PSALM 42 |
Harmonizer: | Claude Goudimel |
1 Comfort, comfort ye my people,
Speak ye peace, thus saith our God;
Comfort those who sit in darkness,
Mourning 'neath their sorrows' 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 Hark, the voice of one that crieth
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 away;
Let the valleys rise to meet Him,
And the hills bow down to greet Him.
3 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 (1671) |
Translator: | Catherine Winkworth (1863) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.77.88 |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 1997 |
Scripture: |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | PSALM 42 |
Harmonizer: | Claude Goudimel (1565) |
Meter: | 8.7.8.7.77.88 |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | Bourgeois's Genevan Psalter, 1551 |