NO. 2 RECITATIVE (Accompanied - Tenor)
Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God;
speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem;
and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness:
Prepare ye the way of the Lord:
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
{Isiah 40, 1 - 3}
Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith your God;
speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem;
and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned.
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness:
Prepare ye the way of the Lord:
make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
{Isiah 40, 1 - 3}