A voice of one crying out:

Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness;(A)
make a straight highway for our God in the desert.(B)

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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.

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16 I will lead the blind by a way they did not know;(A)
I will guide them on paths they have not known.
I will turn darkness to light in front of them(B)
and rough places into level ground.(C)
This is what I will do for them,
and I will not abandon them.(D)

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16 And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

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16 This is what the Lord says—
who makes a way in the sea,
and a path through raging water,(A)

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16 Thus saith the Lord, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;

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19 Look, I am about to do something new;(A)
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,(B)
rivers[a] in the desert.

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Footnotes

  1. 43:19 DSS read paths

19 Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

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11 I will make all my mountains into a road,
and my highways will be raised up.(A)

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11 And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.

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10 Wasn’t it you who dried up the sea,(A)
the waters of the great deep,
who made the sea-bed into a road
for the redeemed to pass over?(B)

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10 Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

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Healing and Peace

14 He said,
“Build it up, build it up, prepare the way,
remove every obstacle from my people’s way.”(A)

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14 And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

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10 Go out, go out through the city gates;
prepare a way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;(A)
clear away the stones!
Raise a banner for the peoples.(B)

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10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

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