Refrain:

All   Thus says our God, I will comfort you,

you shall see and your heart shall rejoice.

1    ‘Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,  ♦

all you who love her,’ says the Lord.

2    ‘Rejoice with her in joy,  ♦

all you who mourn over her,

3    ‘That you may drink deeply with delight  ♦

from her consoling breast.’

4    For thus says our God,  ♦

‘You shall be nursed and carried on her arm.

5    ‘As a mother comforts her children,  ♦

so I will comfort you;

6    ‘You shall see and your heart shall rejoice;  ♦

you shall flourish like the grass of the fields.’

Isaiah 66.10, 11a, 12a, 12c, 13a, 14a,b

All   Glory to the Father and to the Son

and to the Holy Spirit;

as it was in the beginning is now

and shall be for ever. Amen.

All   Thus says our God, I will comfort you,

you shall see and your heart shall rejoice.

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