Isaiah 40:3 Cross References

Isaiah 40:3

3: Listen! I hear the voice of someone shouting, "Make a highway for the LORD through the wilderness. Make a straight, smooth road through the desert for our God.

Malachi 3:1

  1. "Look! I am sending my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. Then the Lord you are seeking will suddenly come to his Temple. The messenger of the covenant, whom you look for so eagerly, is surely coming," says the LORD Almighty.

Mark 1:2

  1. In the book of the prophet Isaiah, God said, "Look, I am sending my messenger before you, and he will prepare your way.
  2. He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"
  3. This messenger was John the Baptist. He lived in the wilderness and was preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  4. People from Jerusalem and from all over Judea traveled out into the wilderness to see and hear John. And when they confessed their sins, he baptized them in the Jordan River.

John 1:23

  1. John replied in the words of Isaiah: "I am a voice shouting in the wilderness, 'Prepare a straight pathway for the Lord's coming!'"

Matthew 3:1

  1. In those days John the Baptist began preaching in the Judean wilderness. His message was,
  2. "Turn from your sins and turn to God, because the Kingdom of Heaven is near. "
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!'"

Luke 1:16

  1. And he will persuade many Israelites to turn to the Lord their God.
  2. He will be a man with the spirit and power of Elijah, the prophet of old. He will precede the coming of the Lord, preparing the people for his arrival. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and he will change disobedient minds to accept godly wisdom."

Malachi 4:5

  1. "Look, I am sending you the prophet Elijah before the great and dreadful day of the LORD arrives.
  2. His preaching will turn the hearts of parents to their children, and the hearts of children to their parents. Otherwise I will come and strike the land with a curse."

Luke 1:76

  1. "And you, my little son, will be called the prophet of the Most High, because you will prepare the way for the Lord.
  2. You will tell his people how to find salvation through forgiveness of their sins.

Isaiah 57:14

  1. I will say, `Rebuild the road! Clear away the rocks and stones so my people can return from captivity.'"

Isaiah 43:19

  1. For I am about to do a brand-new thing. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness for my people to come home. I will create rivers for them in the desert!

Isaiah 62:10

  1. Go out! Prepare the highway for my people to return! Smooth out the road; pull out the boulders; raise a flag for all the nations to see.
  2. The LORD has sent this message to every land: "Tell the people of Israel, `Look, your Savior is coming. See, he brings his reward with him as he comes.'"

Isaiah 35:8

  1. And a main road will go through that once deserted land. It will be named the Highway of Holiness. Evil-hearted people will never travel on it. It will be only for those who walk in God's ways; fools will never walk there.

Luke 3:2

  1. Annas and Caiaphas were the high priests. At this time a message from God came to John son of Zechariah, who was living out in the wilderness.
  2. Then John went from place to place on both sides of the Jordan River, preaching that people should be baptized to show that they had turned from their sins and turned to God to be forgiven.
  3. Isaiah had spoken of John when he said, "He is a voice shouting in the wilderness: 'Prepare a pathway for the Lord's coming! Make a straight road for him!
  4. Fill in the valleys, and level the mountains and hills! Straighten the curves, and smooth out the rough places!
  5. And then all people will see the salvation sent from God.'"

Isaiah 49:11

  1. And I will make my mountains into level paths for them. The highways will be raised above the valleys.

Psalms 68:4

  1. Sing praises to God and to his name! Sing loud praises to him who rides the clouds. His name is the LORD--rejoice in his presence!

Isaiah 11:15

  1. The LORD will make a dry path through the Red Sea. He will wave his hand over the Euphrates River, sending a mighty wind to divide it into seven streams that can easily be crossed.
  2. He will make a highway from Assyria for the remnant there, just as he did for Israel long ago when they returned from Egypt.
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