Isaiah 40:4

Comfort For God's People

³ A voice crieth in the wilderness, "Prepare the way for the LORD, make straight the path for our God in the desert. ⁴ Let all valleys be exalted, and every mountain and hill be laid low. Whatso is crooked, let it be made straight, and let the rough places be made plain fields. ⁵ For the glory of the LORD shall appear, and all flesh shall at once see it. For why? The mouth of the LORD hath spoken it."

Be Exalted

Lifted Up

Isaiah 45:2

I will go before thee, and make the crooked straight. I shall break the brazen doors, and burst the iron bars.

Ezekiel 21:26

Thus sayeth the LORD God: Take away the mitre, and put off the crown, and so is it away: the humble is exalted, and the proud brought low.

Luke 3:5

Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: And crooked things shall be made straight: and the rough ways shall be made smooth.

1 Samuel 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill: to set them among princes, and to inherit them with the seat of glory. For the pillars of the earth are the LORD's, and he hath set the round world upon them.

Job 40:11-13

pour out thy indignation of thy wrath; see that thou cast down all the proud,

Psalm 113:7-8

Which taketh up the simple out of the dust, and lifteth the poor out of the mire,

Isaiah 2:12-15

For the day of the LORD of Hosts shall go over all pride and presumption, upon all them that exalt themselves, and shall bring them all down:

Isaiah 42:11

Let the wilderness with her cities lift up her voice; the towns also that be in Cedar. Let them be glad that sit upon rocks of stone; and let them cry down from the high mountains

Isaiah 42:15-16

I will make waste both mountain and hill, and dry up every green thing that groweth thereon. I will dry up the floods of water, and drink up the rivers.

Ezekiel 17:24

And all the trees of the field shall know, that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, and set the low tree up: that I have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: Even I the LORD that spake it, have also brought it to pass.'"

Luke 1:52-53

He putteth Down the mighty from their seats, and hath exalted them of low degree.

Luke 18:14

I tell you, This man departed home to his house justified more than the other. For every man that exalteth himself, shall be brought low: And he that humbleth himself, shall be exalted."

Proverbs 2:15

Whose ways are crooked, and their paths slanderous;