Isaiah 40:4
Every gey (valley) shall be raised up, 1 and every har and givah (hill) shall be made low; 1 and the crooked shall be made straight, 1 and the rough places bikah (plain, valley); 1
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Job 40:11Unleash thy evrot af (furious wrath); 1 and behold every one that is proud, and bring him low. 1
Proverbs 2:15Whose orkhot (paths) are crooked ones, 1 and they are devious in their ma'agalot (paths). 1
Isaiah 42:11Let the midbar and the towns thereof lift up their voice, 1 the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; 1 let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy, 1 let them shout from the rosh harim. 1
Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the ivrim (blind) 1 by a derech that they knew not; 1 I will lead them in paths 1 that they have not known; 1 I will make choshech into ohr before them, 1 and crooked things straight. 1 These things will I do unto them, 1 and not forsake them. 1
Isaiah 62:10Pass through, pass through the She'arim; 1 prepare ye the Derech HaAm; 1 Build up, build up the mesilah (highway); 1 gather out the even (stones); 1 lift up a nes (banner) [visible] over HaAmim (the Nations). 1
Ezekiel 21:26For Melech Bavel stood at the fork in the derech, at the rosh of the two drakhim, to use divination; he shook his khitzim (arrows), he consulted with teraphim, he looked in the liver.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 40:4-9
Evangelical Predictions. ( b. c. 708.) 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: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5 And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 6 The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is… Read the whole commentary →