1. Comfort ye, comfort ye My people, saith Eloheichem.
2. Speak ye to the lev Yerushalayim, and preach unto her, that her tzeva'a (time of hard service, warfare) is ended, that her avon (iniquity) is nirtzah (punitively paid for, pardoned); for she hath received of the Yad Hashem kiflayim (double) in payment for all her chattot.
3. The voice of him that preacheth in the midbar, Prepare ye the Derech Hashem, make straight in the Aravah a highway for Eloheinu.