Isaiah 40:3
A voice is crying in a wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, || Make straight in a desert a highway for our God.
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Psalms 68:4Sing to God—praise His Name, || Raise up a highway for Him who is riding in deserts, || In YAH [is] His Name, and exult before Him.
Isaiah 35:8And a highway has been there, and a way, || And it is called the “Way of Holiness.” The unclean do not pass over it, || And He Himself [is] by them, || Whoever is going in the way—even fools do not err.
Isaiah 49:11And I have made all My mountains for a way, || And My highways are lifted up.
Isaiah 62:10Pass on, pass on through the gates, || Prepare the way of the people, || Raise up, raise up the highway, clear it from stones, || Lift up an ensign over the peoples.
Malachi 4:5Behold, I am sending Elijah the prophet to you, || Before the coming of the great and fearful Day of YHWH.
Mark 1:2As it has been written in the Prophets: “Behold, I send My messenger before Your face, || Who will prepare Your way before You.
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 →