Isaiah 40:3

The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.

4Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.

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Cross References

Psalms 68:4I am weary of crying, my throat has become hoarse; 1 Mine eyes have failed by my waiting on my God. 1

Isaiah 35:8There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray.

Isaiah 49:11And I will make every mountain a way, and every path a pasture to them.

Isaiah 62:10Go through my gates, and make a way for my people; and cast the stones out of the way; lift up a standard for the Gentiles.

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 →

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