³ The voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, make straight in the desert a highway for our God!

³ For this is he who has been spoken of through Esaias the prophet, saying, Voice of him that crieth in the wilderness: prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.

1 Beginning of the glad tidings of Jesus Christ, Son of God;

² as it is written in [Isaiah] the prophet, Behold, *I* send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way.

³ Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of [the] Lord, make his paths straight.