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The voice of one who cries, Prepare you in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God.
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A Prophecy for Then and Now
Scholars explain this verse has a dual fulfillment. It primarily referred to God leading the Jewish exiles back from Babylon, as if on a specially prepared highway through the desert. However, the New Testament makes it clear its ultimate fulfillment was in John the Baptist, the 'voice' who prepared the way for Jesus Christ's ministry.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The voice of him who cries - Lowth and Noyes render this, ‘A voice cries,’ and connect the phrase ‘in the wilderness’ to the latter part of …
19th Century
Anglican
The voice of him that crieth ... — The laws of Hebrew parallelism require a different punctuation: A voice of one cry…
Baptist
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley…
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16th Century
Protestant
A voice crying in the wilderness. He develops the subject that he had begun and declares more explicitly that he will send to the people, …
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness Not the voice of the Holy Ghost, as Jarchi; but of John the Baptist, …
All human life is a warfare; the Christian life is the most so; but the struggle will not last always. Troubles are removed in love, when sin is pa…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. Be comforted, be comforted. This is the second principal part of this book, in which the prophet primarily intends to comfort th…
