Isaiah 40:4

New English Translation

Every valley must be elevated, and every mountain and hill leveled. The rough terrain will become a level plain, the rugged landscape a wide valley.

Cross References

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are morally crooked, and who are devious in their ways;

Isaiah 40:3

A voice cries out, “In the wilderness clear a way for the Lord; construct in the desert a road for our God.

Isaiah 40:5

The splendor of the Lord will be revealed, and all people will see it at the same time. For the Lord has decreed it.”

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its cities shout out, the towns where the nomads of Kedar live! Let the residents of Sela shout joyfully; let them shout loudly from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 45:2

“I will go before you and level mountains. Bronze doors I will shatter and iron bars I will hack through.

Isaiah 49:11

I will make all my mountains into a road; I will construct my roadways.”

Isaiah 62:10

Come through! Come through the gates! Prepare the way for the people! Build it! Build the roadway! Remove the stones! Lift a signal flag for the nations!

Ezekiel 17:24

All the trees of the field will know that I am the Lord. I make the high tree low; I raise up the low tree. I make the green tree wither, and I make the dry tree sprout. I, the Lord, have spoken, and I will do it!’”

Ezekiel 21:26

this is what the sovereign Lord says: Tear off the turban, take off the crown! Things must change! Exalt the lowly, bring down the proud!

Zechariah 4:7

“What are you, you great mountain? Because of Zerubbabel you will become a level plain! And he will bring forth the temple capstone with shoutings of ‘Grace! Grace!’ because of this.”

Luke 18:14

I tell you that this man went down to his home justified rather than the Pharisee. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Luke 3:5

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

1 Samuel 2:8

He lifts the weak from the dust; he raises the poor from the ash heap to seat them with princes and to bestow on them an honored position. The foundations of the earth belong to the Lord, and he has placed the world on them.