Sermonstudio

Suggestions:
Use in ordinary sequence with the scripture reading.
2 readers -- young women

Key:
1 = voice in lower range
2 = voice in higher range

1 and 2: Comfort, O comfort my people, says your God.

1: Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has
served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received
from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

2: A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way of the
Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

1 and 2: Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and
hill be made low.

2: the uneven ground shall become level,

1: and the rough places a plain.

1 and 2: Then the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all
people shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has
spoken."

1: A voice says, "Cry out!"

2: And I said, "What shall I cry?"

1 and 2: All people are grass, their constancy is like the flower
of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades, when the
breath of the Lord blows upon it;

2: surely the people are grass.

1 and 2: The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our
God will stand forever.

1: Get you up to a high mountain, O Zion, herald of good tidings;

2: Lift up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald of good
tidings, lift it up, do not fear; say to the cities of Judah,
"Here is your God!"

1: See, the Lord God comes with might, and his arm rules for him;
his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.

1 and 2: He will feed his flock like a shepherd; he will gather
the lambs in his arms, and carry them in his bosom, and gently
lead the mother sheep.