Luke 3:5
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5 Every valley shall be filled
And every mountain and hill brought low;
The crooked places shall be made straight
And the rough ways smooth;
Isaiah 42:16
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16 I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;
I will lead them in paths they have not known.
I will make darkness light before them,
And crooked places straight.
These things I will do for them,
And not forsake them.
Isaiah 40:4
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4 Every valley shall be exalted
And every mountain and hill brought low;
(A)The crooked places shall be made [a]straight
And the rough places smooth;
Footnotes
- Isaiah 40:4 Or a plain
Isaiah 49:11
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11 (A)I will make each of My mountains a road,
And My highways shall be elevated.
Isaiah 45:2
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2 ‘I will go before you
(A)And[a] make the [b]crooked places straight;
(B)I will break in pieces the gates of bronze
And cut the bars of iron.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 45:2 Tg. I will trample down the walls; Vg. I will humble the great ones of the earth
- Isaiah 45:2 DSS, LXX mountains
Ezekiel 17:24
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24 And all the trees of the field shall know that I, the Lord, (A)have brought down the high tree and exalted the low tree, dried up the green tree and made the dry tree flourish; (B)I, the Lord, have spoken and have done it.”
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James 1:9
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Hebrews 12:12-13
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Renew Your Spiritual Vitality(A)
12 Therefore (B)strengthen the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.
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Isaiah 2:11-17
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11 The [a]lofty looks of man shall be (A)humbled,
The haughtiness of men shall be bowed down,
And the Lord alone shall be exalted (B)in that day.
12 For the day of the Lord of hosts
Shall come upon everything proud and lofty,
Upon everything lifted up—
And it shall be brought low—
13 Upon all (C)the cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up,
And upon all the oaks of Bashan;
14 (D)Upon all the high mountains,
And upon all the hills that are lifted up;
15 Upon every high tower,
And upon every fortified wall;
16 (E)Upon all the ships of Tarshish,
And upon all the beautiful sloops.
17 The [b]loftiness of man shall be bowed down,
And the haughtiness of men shall be brought low;
The Lord alone will be exalted in that day,
Footnotes
- Isaiah 2:11 proud
- Isaiah 2:17 pride
Luke 1:51-53
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51 (A)He has shown strength with His arm;
(B)He has scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
52 (C)He has put down the mighty from their thrones,
And exalted the lowly.
53 He has (D)filled the hungry with good things,
And the rich He has sent away empty.
Isaiah 61:1-3
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The Good News of Salvation
61 “The (A)Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me,
Because the Lord (B)has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me (C)to [a]heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim (D)liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
2 (E)To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord,
And (F)the day of vengeance of our God;
(G)To comfort all who mourn,
3 To [b]console those who mourn in Zion,
(H)To give them beauty for ashes,
The oil of joy for mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
(I)The planting of the Lord, (J)that He may be glorified.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 61:1 Lit. bind up
- Isaiah 61:3 Lit. appoint
Isaiah 35:6-8
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6 Then the (A)lame shall leap like a deer,
And the (B)tongue of the dumb sing.
For (C)waters shall burst forth in the wilderness,
And streams in the desert.
7 The parched ground shall become a pool,
And the thirsty land springs of water;
In (D)the habitation of jackals, where each lay,
There shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 A (E)highway shall be there, and a road,
And it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.
(F)The unclean shall not pass over it,
But it shall be for others.
Whoever walks the road, although a fool,
Shall not go astray.
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