1. “Comfort, comfort my people,”
   says your God.
2. “Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her
   that her time of warfare is over,
3. A voice cries out,
   “In the wilderness clear a way for the LORD;
   construct in the desert a road for our God.
4. Every valley must be elevated,
   and every mountain and hill leveled.
   The rough terrain will become a level plain,
   the rugged landscape a wide valley.
5. The splendor of the LORD will be revealed,
   and all people will see it at the same time.
   For the LORD has decreed it.”
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11. Like a shepherd he tends his flock;
    he gathers up the lambs with his arm;
    he carries them close to his heart;
    he leads the ewes along.
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28. Do you not know?
    Have you not heard?
    The LORD is an eternal God,
    the creator of the whole earth.
    He does not get tired or weary;
    there is no limit to his wisdom.
29. He gives strength to those who are tired;
    to the ones who lack power, he gives renewed energy.
30. Even youths get tired and weary;
    even strong young men clumsily stumble.
31. But those who wait for the LORD’s help find renewed strength;
    they rise up as if they had eagles’ wings,
    they run without growing weary,
    they walk without getting tired.

Isaiah 41

17. When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the LORD will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18. I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys. I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
19. I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,

Isaiah 42

1. Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him; he will bring forth justice to the nations.
2. He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;
3. a bruised reed he will not break, and a faintly burning wick he will not quench; he will faithfully bring forth justice.
4. He will not grow faint or be discouraged till he has established justice in the earth; and the coastlands wait for his law.
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5. Thus says God, the LORD, who created the heavens and stretched them out, who spread out the earth and what comes from it, who gives breath to the people on it and spirit to those who walk in it:
6. “I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness; I will take you by the hand and keep you; I will give you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations,
7. to open the eyes that are blind, to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon, from the prison those who sit in darkness.
10. Sing to the LORD a new song, his praise from the end of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that fills it, the coastlands and their inhabitants.

Isaiah 43

16. Thus says the LORD, who makes a way in the sea, a path in the mighty waters,
17. who brings forth chariot and horse, army and warrior;…
18. “Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
19. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs forth, do you not perceive it? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
21. the people whom I formed for myself that they might declare my praise.
25. “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.

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