Isa 40: 1-5

Excerpt:…Paul, quoting David, defines the second and last of that trauma. In that harmony we read: “ 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. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: … 5 And the glory of the LORD shall be revealed…” —Isaiah 40: 1-5. The comfort is expressed by even more metaphors: Israel is the desert place, and the soon-to-be exalted valley. Their enemies are the mountains soon to be made low. So let us not seek to raid the US Treasury to repair us: This place-setting flip flop of favor has already begun…