A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
Malachi 4:5 - English Standard Version 2016 “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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: “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 awesome 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 mighty man cries aloud there.
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
“For behold, the day is coming, burning like an oven, when all the arrogant and all evildoers will be stubble. The day that is coming shall set them ablaze, says the Lord of hosts, so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.
and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”
They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”