Isaiah 40:4

Comfort For God's People

³ 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.
⁴ Every valley will be lifted up,
and every mountain and hill will be leveled;
the uneven ground will become smooth
and the rough places, a plain.
⁵ And the glory of the Lord will appear,
and all humanity together will see it,
for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.

Be Exalted

Lifted Up

Isaiah 45:2

“I will go before you
and level the uneven places;
I will shatter the bronze doors
and cut the iron bars in two.

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord God says:

Remove the turban, and take off the crown.
Things will not remain as they are;
exalt the lowly and bring down the exalted.

Luke 3:5

Every valley will be filled,
and every mountain and hill will be made low;
the crooked will become straight,
the rough ways smooth,

1 Samuel 2:8

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile.
He seats them with noblemen
and gives them a throne of honor.
For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s;
He has set the world on them.

Job 40:11-13

Unleash your raging anger;
look on every proud person and humiliate him.

Psalm 113:7-8

He raises the poor from the dust
and lifts the needy from the garbage pile

Isaiah 2:12-15

For a day belonging to the Lord of Hosts is coming
against all that is proud and lofty,
against all that is lifted up—it will be humbled—

Isaiah 42:11

Let the desert and its cities shout,
the settlements where Kedar dwells cry aloud.
Let the inhabitants of Sela sing for joy;
let them cry out from the mountaintops.

Isaiah 42:15-16

I will lay waste mountains and hills
and dry up all their vegetation.
I will turn rivers into islands
and dry up marshes.

Ezekiel 17:24

Then all the trees of the field will know
that I am Yahweh.
I bring down the tall tree,
and make the low tree tall.
I cause the green tree to wither
and make the withered tree thrive.
I, Yahweh, have spoken
and I will do it.

Luke 1:52-53

He has toppled the mighty from their thrones
and exalted the lowly.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, this one went down to his house justified rather than the other; because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Proverbs 2:15

whose paths are crooked,
and whose ways are devious.