A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;(A)
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.(B)

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A voice of one calling:
“In the wilderness prepare
    the way(A) for the Lord[a];
make straight(B) in the desert
    a highway for our God.[b](C)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one calling in the wilderness: / “Prepare the way for the Lord
  2. Isaiah 40:3 Hebrew; Septuagint make straight the paths of our God

17 And he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of fathers to their children,(A) and the disobedient to the understanding of the righteous, to make ready for the Lord a prepared people.”(B)

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17 And he will go on before the Lord,(A) in the spirit and power of Elijah,(B) to turn the hearts of the parents to their children(C) and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”(D)

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76 And you, child, will be called
a prophet of the Most High,(A)
for you will go before the Lord
to prepare his ways,(B)

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76 And you, my child, will be called a prophet(A) of the Most High;(B)
    for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,(C)

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23 He said, “I am a voice of one crying out in the wilderness: Make straight the way of the Lord[a](A)—just as Isaiah(B) the prophet said.”

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  1. 1:23 Is 40:3

23 John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet, “I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,(A) ‘Make straight the way for the Lord.’”[a](B)

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  1. John 1:23 Isaiah 40:3