Luke 3:5

Every valley will be filled, 1 and every mountain and hill will be made low, 1 and the crooked roads will be made straight, 1 and the uneven places will be built into roads, 1

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Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

In Context

4As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, 1 “A voice of one calling out in the wilderness, 1 'Make ready the way of the Lord, 1 make his paths straight. 1

6and all flesh will see the salvation of God.'”

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Cross References

Isaiah 35:6Then the lame man will leap like a deer, and the mute tongue will sing, 1 for water breaks out in the Arabah, and streams in the wilderness. 1

Isaiah 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they do not know; in paths that they do not know I will lead them. 1 I will turn the darkness into light before them, and make the crooked places straight. 1 These things I will do, and I will not abandon them. 1

Isaiah 49:11Then I will make all my mountains into a road, and make my highways level.” 1

Ezekiel 17:24Then all the trees of the field will know that I am Yahweh. I bring down the high trees and I raise up the low trees. I wither the watered tree and I cause the dried tree to bloom. I am Yahweh, I have declared that this will happen; and I have done it.'”

Hebrews 12:12So strengthen your hands that hang down and your weak knees.

Matthew Henry on Luke 3:2-15

Ministry of John the Baptist. 1 Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituræa and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2 Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. 3 And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins; 4 As it is… Read the whole commentary →

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