A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Malachi 4:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. Plus de versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes. [Matt. 11:14; 17:10-13.] American Standard Version (1901) Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and terrible day of Jehovah come. Common English Bible Look, I am sending Elijah the prophet to you, before the great and terrifying day of the LORD arrives. Catholic Public Domain Version Behold, I will send to you Elijah the prophet, before the arrival of the great and terrible day of the Lord. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Behold I will send you Elias the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord. |
A voice cries out: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the great and terrible day of the Lord comes.
The great day of the Lord is near, near and hastening fast; the sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; the warrior cries aloud there.
See, I am sending my messenger to prepare the way before me, and the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple. The messenger of the covenant in whom you delight—indeed, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
See, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble; the day that comes shall burn them up, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
With the spirit and power of Elijah he will go before him, to turn the hearts of parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous, to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the prophet?” He answered, “No.”
They asked him, “Why, then, are you baptizing if you are neither the Messiah, nor Elijah, nor the prophet?”