A [a]voice crieth in the [b]wilderness, [c]Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make straight in the desert a path for our God.

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  1. Isaiah 40:3 To wit, of the Prophets.
  2. Isaiah 40:3 That is, in Babylon and other places, where they were kept in captivity, and misery.
  3. Isaiah 40:3 Meaning Cyrus and Darius which should deliver God’s people out of captivity, and make them a ready way to Jerusalem: and this was fully accomplished, when John the Baptist brought tidings of Jesus Christ’s coming, who was the true deliverer of his Church from sin and Satan, Matt. 3:3.

For this is he of whom it is spoken by the Prophet Isaiah, saying, (A)The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: [a]make his paths straight.

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  1. Matthew 3:3 Make him a plain and smooth way.

As it is written in the book of the sayings of Isaiah the Prophet, which saith, (A)The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness is, Prepare ye the way of the Lord: make his paths straight.

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