Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the LORD, his name! Rejoice before him!
Isaiah 40:3 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) The voice of one who calls out, *Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition A voice of one who cries: Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord [clear away the obstacles]; make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God! [Mark 1:3.] American Standard Version (1901) The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God. Common English Bible A voice is crying out: “Clear the LORD’s way in the desert! Make a level highway in the wilderness for our God! Catholic Public Domain Version The voice of one crying out in the desert: "Prepare the way of the Lord! Make straight the paths of our God, in a solitary place. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God. |
Sing to God! Sing praises to his name! Extol him who rides on the clouds: to the LORD, his name! Rejoice before him!
A highway will be there, a road, and it will be called The Holy Way. The unclean shall not pass over it, but it will be for those who walk in the Way. Wicked fools will not go there.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. The uneven shall be made level, and the rough places a plain.
Behold, I will do a new thing. It springs forth now. Don't you know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
He will say, Cast up, cast up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.
*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, whom you desire, behold, he comes!* says the LORD of Armies.
He said, *I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, 'Make straight the way of the Lord,' as Yeshaiyahu the prophet said.*