Isaiah 40:3

Comfort For God's People

² “Speak kindly to Jerusalem;
And call out to her, that her warfare has ended,
That her iniquity has been removed,
That she has received of the Lord’s hand
Double for all her sins.”
³ A voice is calling,
“Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness;
Make smooth in the desert a highway for our God.
⁴ “Let every valley be lifted up,
And every mountain and hill be made low;
And let the rough ground become a plain,
And the rugged terrain a broad valley;

Crying in the Wilderness

Highway for Our God

In the Wilderness

Prepare the Way

Voice of One Crying in the Wilderness

Way of the Lord

In The Desert

Jehovah

Malachi 3:1

“Behold, I am going to send My messenger, and he will clear 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.

John 1:23

He said, “I am a voice of one crying in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as Isaiah the prophet said.”

Malachi 4:5-6

“Behold, I am going to send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and terrible day of the Lord.

Psalm 68:4

Sing to God, sing praises to His name;
Lift up a song for Him who rides through the deserts,
Whose name is the Lord, and exult before Him.

Isaiah 43:19

“Behold, I will do something new,
Now it will spring forth;
Will you not be aware of it?
I will even make a roadway in the wilderness,
Rivers in the desert.

Isaiah 57:14

And it will be said,
“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
Remove every obstacle out of the way of My people.”

Mark 1:2-5

As it is written in Isaiah the prophet:
“Behold, I send My messenger ahead of You,
Who will prepare Your way;

Isaiah 11:15-16

And the Lord will utterly destroy
The tongue of the Sea of Egypt;
And He will wave His hand over the River
With His scorching wind;
And He will strike it into seven streams
And make men walk over dry-shod.

Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there, a roadway,
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
But it will be for him who walks that way,
And fools will not wander on it.

Isaiah 49:11

“I will make all My mountains a road,
And My highways will be raised up.

Isaiah 62:10-11

Go through, go through the gates,
Clear the way for the people;
Build up, build up the highway,
Remove the stones, lift up a standard over the peoples.

Matthew 3:1-3

Now in those days John the Baptist *came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,

Luke 1:16-17

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

Luke 1:76-77

“And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High;
For you will go on before the Lord to prepare His ways;

Luke 3:2-6

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