Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

New American Standard Bible

A voice is calling,
Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

International Standard Version

A voice cries out: "In the wilderness prepare the way for the LORD; and in the desert a straight highway for our God.'

American Standard Version

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.

Amplified


A voice of one is calling out,
“Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness [remove the obstacles];
Make straight and smooth in the desert a highway for our God.

Bible in Basic English

A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

Darby Translation

The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!

Julia Smith Translation

The voice of him calling in the desert, Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the sterile region a highway for our God.

King James 2000

The voice of him that cries in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Lexham Expanded Bible

A voice [is] calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God!

Modern King James verseion

The voice of him who cries in the wilderness, Prepare the way of Jehovah, make straight a highway in the desert for our God.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert.

NET Bible

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

New Heart English Bible

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.

The Emphasized Bible

A voice of one crying! - In the desert, prepare ye the way of Yahweh, - Make smooth in the waste plain a highway for our God:

Webster

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.

World English Bible

The voice of one who calls out, "Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

Youngs Literal Translation

A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The voice
קל קול 
Qowl 
Usage: 506

קרא 
Qara' 
Usage: 736

in the wilderness
מדבּר 
Midbar 
Usage: 271

פּנה 
Panah 
Usage: 134

ye the way
דּרך 
Derek 
Usage: 704

of the Lord

Usage: 0

in the desert
ערבה 
`arabah 
Usage: 61

מסלּה 
M@cillah 
Usage: 27

Devotionals

Devotionals containing Isaiah 40:3

Images Isaiah 40:3

Context Readings

Comfort For God's People

2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins. 3 The voice of a man crying out in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low. And the crooked shall become straight, and the rough places smooth.


Cross References

Malachi 3:1

Behold, I send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me. And LORD, whom ye seek, will suddenly come to his temple. And the messenger of the covenant, whom ye desire, behold, he comes, says LORD of hosts.

John 1:23

He said, I am the voice of a man crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of Lord, just as the prophet Isaiah said.

Malachi 4:5-6

Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and fearful day of LORD comes.

Psalm 68:4

Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Cast up a highway for him who rides through the deserts. His name is LORD, and exult ye before him.

Isaiah 43:19

Behold, I will do a new thing. Now it shall spring forth. Shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 57:14

And he will say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way. Take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.

Mark 1:2-5

As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, who will prepare thy way before thee.

Isaiah 11:15-16

And LORD will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea. And with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will smite it into seven streams, and cause men to march over dry shod.

Isaiah 35:8

And a highway shall be there, and a way. And it shall be called The way of holiness. The unclean shall not pass over it, but is shall be for [the redeemed], the wayfaring men. Yea fools shall not err [in it].

Isaiah 49:11

And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

Isaiah 62:10-11

Go through, go through the gates. Prepare ye the way of the people. Cast up, cast up the highway. Gather out the stones. Lift up an ensign for the peoples.

Matthew 3:1-3

And in those days John the immerser comes, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, and saying,

Luke 1:16-17

And he will turn back many of the sons of Israel to Lord their God.

Luke 1:76-77

And thou, child, will be called a prophet of the Most High. For thou will go ahead, before the face of Lord, to prepare his ways,

Luke 3:2-6

in the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God became in John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness.

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