1 Comfort, ye ministers of grace,
Comfort the people of your Lord;
O lift ye up the fallen race,
And cheer them by the gospel word. MIM 65.1
2 Go into every nation, go,
Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry,
Glad tidings unto all we show;
Jerusalem, thy God is nigh. MIM 65.2
3 Hark! in the wilderness a cry,
A voice that loudly calls, Prepare!
Prepare your hearts, for God is nigh,
And means to make his entrance there! MIM 65.3
4 The Lord your God shall quickly come;
Sinners, repent! the call obey:
Open your hearts to make him room;
Ye desert souls, prepare his way. MIM 65.4
5 The Lord shall clear his way through all;
Whate’er obstructs, obstructs in vain; The vale shall rise, the mountain fall,
crooked be straight, and rugged plain MIM 65.5
6 The glory of the Lord displayed
shall all mankind together view
And what his mouth in truth hath said,
His own almighty hand shall do MIM 66.1