Isaiah 40:4

Fill in the valleys; flatten every hill and every mountain. Make the uneven ground smooth, and make the rough places smooth.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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:

In Context

3I hear someone who is shouting, “Prepare in the desert a way for Yahweh to come to you; make a smooth road for our God (OR, Prepare yourselves to receive Yahweh when he comes, like people make a straight road for an important official [MET]).

5If you do that, it will become known that Yahweh is glorious/great, and all people will realize it at the same time. Those things will surely happen because it is Yahweh who has said [MTY] it.”

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Cross References

Job 40:11Show that you are very angry; show that you have the right/authority to humble people who are very proud!

Proverbs 2:15They ◄walk on crooked paths/always deceive others► and are always dishonest.

Isaiah 42:11You people who live in towns in the desert, sing loudly! You people who live in the Kedar area in the north of Arabia, you rejoice also! You people in Sela city in Edom, you also should sing joyfully; shout to praise him from the tops of your mountains!

Isaiah 42:16My people who have been taken to Babylonia are like [MET] blind people, but I will lead them along a road on which they have not walked before, on a road that they have not seen before. They have felt very helpless, as though they were walking in the darkness, but I will take away that darkness and I will make smooth the road that is in front of them. Those are the things that I will do for them; I will not abandon them.

Isaiah 62:10Go out through the city gates! Prepare the highway on which people will return from other countries! Cause the road to become smooth; clear off all the stones; set up signal flags to help the people-groups to see where the road to Jerusalem is.

Ezekiel 21:26And this is what Yahweh the Lord says to you soldiers from Babylonia: ‘Take off the king’s turban and his crown, because now things will be different than they were before. Those in Jerusalem who had no authority will now be given authority, and those who had authority will have their authority taken from them.

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 →

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