Response Reading: 115. Advent Sunday (1)
PRES: Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people.
CONG: Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones.
PRES: The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth: "Say to the Daughter of Zion, 'See, your Savior comes!'"
CONG: See, hisd reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.
PRES: They will be called the Holy People, the Redeemed of the Lord;
CONG: and you will be called Sought After, the City No Longer Deserted
PRES: As is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet: "A voice of one calling in the desert"
CONG: Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him
PRES: Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low
CONG: The crooked roads shall become straight,  the rough ways smooth. And all mankind will see God's salvation.