Isaiah 40:3

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³A 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

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

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Psalm 63:8

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⁸I cling to you;^(A)
your right hand upholds me.^(B)

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Micah 3:11

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¹¹Her leaders judge for a bribe,^(A)
    her priests teach for a price,^(B)
    and her prophets tell fortunes for money.^(C)
Yet they look^(D) for the Lord’s support and say,
    “Is not the Lord among us?
    No disaster will come upon us.”^(E)

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Isaiah 26:3-4

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³You will keep in perfect peace^(A)
    those whose minds are steadfast,
    because they trust^(B) in you.
⁴Trust^(C) in the Lord forever,^(D)
    for the Lord, the Lord himself, is the Rock^(E) eternal.

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1 Peter 1:21

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²¹Through him you believe in God,^(A) who raised him from the dead^(B) and glorified him,^(C) and so your faith and hope^(D) are in God.

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Ephesians 1:12-13

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¹²in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.^(A) ¹³And you also were included in Christ^(B) when you heard the message of truth,^(C) the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal,^(D) the promised Holy Spirit,^(E)

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John 13:23

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²³One of them, the disciple whom Jesus loved,^(A) was reclining next to him.

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John 1:48-51

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⁴⁸“How do you know me?” Nathanael asked.

Jesus answered, “I saw you while you were still under the fig tree before Philip called you.”

⁴⁹Then Nathanael declared, “Rabbi,^(A) you are the Son of God;^(B) you are the king of Israel.”^(C)

⁵⁰Jesus said, “You believe^[a] because I told you I saw you under the fig tree. You will see greater things than that.” ⁵¹He then added, “Very truly I tell you,^[b] you^[c] will see ‘heaven open,^(D) and the angels of God ascending and descending^(E) on’^[d] the Son of Man.”^(F)

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John 1:50 Or Do you believe … ?
John 1:51 The Greek is plural.
John 1:51 The Greek is plural.
John 1:51 Gen. 28:12

Hosea 12:4

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⁴He struggled with the angel and overcame him;
he wept and begged for his favor.
He found him at Bethel^(A)
and talked with him there—

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Jeremiah 2:2

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²“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem:

“This is what the Lord says:

“‘I remember the devotion of your youth,^(A)
how as a bride you loved me
and followed me through the wilderness,^(B)
through a land not sown.

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Isaiah 49:20-23

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²⁰The children born during your bereavement
    will yet say in your hearing,
‘This place is too small for us;
    give us more space to live in.’^(A)
²¹Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?^(B)
I was bereaved^(C) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.^(D)
    Who brought these^(E) up?
I was left^(F) all alone,^(G)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

²²This is what the Sovereign Lord^(H) says:

“See, I will beckon to the nations,
    I will lift up my banner^(I) to the peoples;
they will bring^(J) your sons in their arms
    and carry your daughters on their hips.^(K)
²³Kings^(L) will be your foster fathers,
    and their queens your nursing mothers.^(M)
They will bow down^(N) before you with their faces to the ground;
    they will lick the dust^(O) at your feet.
Then you will know that I am the Lord;^(P)
    those who hope^(Q) in me will not be disappointed.^(R)”

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Isaiah 43:19

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¹⁹See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
and streams in the wasteland.^(C)

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Isaiah 36:6

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⁶Look, I know you are depending^(A) on Egypt,^(B) that splintered reed^(C) of a staff, which pierces the hand of anyone who leans on it! Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who depend on him.

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Psalm 107:2-8

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²Let the redeemed^(A) of the Lord tell their story—
those he redeemed from the hand of the foe,
³those he gathered^(B) from the lands,
from east and west, from north and south.^[a]

⁴Some wandered in desert^(C) wastelands,
    finding no way to a city^(D) where they could settle.
⁵They were hungry^(E) and thirsty,^(F)
    and their lives ebbed away.
⁶Then they cried out^(G) to the Lord in their trouble,
    and he delivered them from their distress.
⁷He led them by a straight way^(H)
    to a city^(I) where they could settle.
⁸Let them give thanks^(J) to the Lord for his unfailing love^(K)
    and his wonderful deeds^(L) for mankind,

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Footnotes

Psalm 107:3 Hebrew north and the sea

Psalm 45:10-11

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¹⁰Listen, daughter,^(A) and pay careful attention:^(B)
Forget your people^(C) and your father’s house.
¹¹Let the king be enthralled by your beauty;^(D)
honor^(E) him, for he is your lord.^(F)

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2 Chronicles 32:8

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⁸With him is only the arm of flesh,^(A) but with us^(B) is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles.”^(C) And the people gained confidence from what Hezekiah the king of Judah said.

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