For this is he who was spoken of by the prophet Isaiah when he said,

(A)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(B)‘Prepare[a] the way of the Lord;
    make his paths straight.’”

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  1. Matthew 3:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness

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

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  1. Isaiah 40:3 Or A voice of one crying

(A)“Behold, I send (B)my messenger, and (C)he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord (D)whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and (E)the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.

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

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  1. John 1:23 Or crying out, ‘In the wilderness make straight

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

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17 and (A)he will go before him (B)in the spirit and power of Elijah, (C)to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and (D)the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, (E)to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”

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(A)the voice of one crying in the wilderness:
    (B)‘Prepare[a] the way of the Lord,
    make his paths straight,’”

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  1. Mark 1:3 Or crying: Prepare in the wilderness

Comfort for the Contrite

14 And it shall be said,
(A)“Build up, build up, prepare the way,
    remove every obstruction from my people's way.”
15 For thus says (B)the One who is high and lifted up,
    who inhabits eternity, whose name is (C)Holy:
(D)“I dwell in the high and holy place,
    and also (E)with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit,
(F)to revive the spirit of the lowly,
    and to revive the heart of the contrite.

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And he went into all the region around the Jordan, proclaiming (A)a baptism of repentance (B)for the forgiveness of sins. As it is written in (C)the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet,

(D)“The voice of one crying in the wilderness:
(E)‘Prepare the way of the Lord,[a]
    make his paths straight.
(F)Every valley shall be filled,
    (G)and every mountain and hill shall be made low,
(H)and the crooked shall become straight,
    and the rough places shall become level ways,
(I)and all flesh shall see (J)the salvation of God.’”

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  1. Luke 3:4 Or crying, Prepare in the wilderness the way of the Lord

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