Isaiah 40:1-3

1“Comfort, comfort my people,” says your God.

2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and announce to her that her time of hard service is over, her iniquity has been pardoned, and she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.”

3A voice of one crying out: Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.