Comfort, ye ministers of grace

1Comfort, ye ministers of grace, Comfort the people of your Lord; O lift ye up the fallen race, And cheer them by the gospel word.

2Go into every nation, go, Speak to their trembling hearts, and cry, Glad tidings unto all we show; Jerusalem, thy God is nigh.

3Hark! 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.

4The Lord your God shall quickly come; Sinners, repent! the call obey: Open your hearts to make him room; Ye desert souls, prepare his way.

5The Lord shall clear his way through all; Whatever obstructs, obstructs in vain; The vale shall rise, the mountain fall, Crooked be straight, and rugged plain.

6The glory of the Lord displayed Shall all mankind together view, And what his mouth in truth hath said, His own almighty hand shall do.