Isaiah 40:3
The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Psalms 68:4And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.
Isaiah 35:8And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.
Isaiah 49:11And I will make all my mountains a way, and my paths shall be exalted.
Isaiah 62:10Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.
Malachi 4:5Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
Mark 1:2As it is written in Isaias the prophet: Behold I send my angel before thy face, who shall prepare the way before thee.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:2-3
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 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. We have here the commission and instructions given, not to this prophet only, but, with him, to all the Lord's prophets, nay, and to all Christ's ministers, to proclaim comfort to God's people. 1. This did not only warrant, but enjoin, this… Read the whole commentary →