Comfort Ye My People

Handel used the text of Isaiah 40:1-5 for three different pieces in his famous oratorio Messiah. Here's the first, from Isaiah 40:1-3 in the King James Version.

Isaiah 40:1-3

1 Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

3 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.