Isaiah 40:3

Comfort For God's People

² "Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, that her compulsory labor is fulfilled, that her sin is paid for, that she has {received} from the hand of Yahweh double for all her sins." ³ A voice [is] calling in the wilderness, "Clear the way of Yahweh! Make a highway smooth in the desert for our God! ⁴ Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall become low, And the rough ground shall be like a plain, and the rugged ground like a valley-plain.

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

"Look! I [am] going to send my messenger, and he will prepare [the] way {before me}. And the Lord whom you [are] seeking will come suddenly to his temple, and the messenger of the covenant, [in] whom you [are] taking pleasure--look!--[he is] about to come," says Yahweh of hosts.

John 1:23

He said, "I [am] 'the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, "Make straight the way of the Lord," ' just as Isaiah the prophet said."

Malachi 4:5-6

Look! I [am] going to send to you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and awesome day of Yahweh!

Psalm 68:4

Sing to God, sing praises to his name. Lift up [a song] to [the] rider on the clouds--his name is Yah-- and rejoice before him.

Isaiah 43:19

Look! I [am] about to do a new thing! Now it sprouts! Do you not perceive it? Indeed, I will {make} a way in the wilderness, rivers in [the] desert.

Isaiah 57:14

And one shall say, "Build up, build up! Clear [the] way! Remove [the] obstacles from the way of my people!"

Mark 1:2-5

Just as it is written in the prophet Isaiah, "Behold, I am sending my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,

Isaiah 11:15-16

And Yahweh will divide 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 he will {make it passable by foot}.

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 travel through it, but it [is] for them, he who walks [on the] way; and fools shall not wander about.

Isaiah 49:11

And I will {make} all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up.

Isaiah 62:10-11

Pass through, pass through the gates! Make the way clear {for} the people! Pile up, pile up the highway; clear [it] of stones! Lift up an ensign over the peoples!

Matthew 3:1-3

Now in those days John the Baptist came preaching in the Judean wilderness

Luke 1:16-17

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

Luke 1:76-77

And so 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 time of the high priest Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John the son of Zechariah in the wilderness.