Isaiah 57:14

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Summary

Isaiah 57:14

And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

Cast

Take

General references

Deuteronomy 19:3

Isaiah 35:3

Isaiah 49:11

Bible References

Cast

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.

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

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!

Every valley will be filled, and every mountain and hill will be leveled, and the crooked will become straight, and the rough road [will become] smooth,

Take

Therefore, let us no longer pass judgment on one another, but rather decide this: not to place a cause for stumbling or a temptation before a brother.

but we preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a cause for stumbling, but to the Gentiles foolishness,

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

{Give no offense} both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

[We are] giving no one an occasion for taking offense in anything, in order that our ministry will not have fault found [with it],

and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame will not be dislocated, but rather be healed.

General references

You shall prepare the roads for yourselves, and you shall divide the regions of your land into thirds that Yahweh your God gives you as a possession, so that {it will be available for any manslayer to flee there}.

Strengthen [the] weak hands and make [the] staggering knees firm.

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