Luke 3:5 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

⁵ Every valley will be filled up and every mountain and hill will be leveled. And crooked [roads] will become straight and rough ones smoothed out.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ 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;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Every valley and ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be leveled; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough roads shall be made smooth;

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ Every valley shall be filled, And every mountain and hill shall be brought low; And the crooked shall become straight, And the rough ways smooth;

Common English Bible

⁵ Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled. The crooked will be made straight and the rough places made smooth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low. And what is crooked shall be made straight. And the rough paths shall be made into level ways.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ 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 plain;

Luke 3:5 Cross References

James 1:9

But the person [who must live] in humble circumstances should be happy over being lifted up [spiritually by God].