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10 The scripture says that you are ready to appear at the designated time,[a] to cool God's anger before it breaks out in fury; that you

will bring parents and children together again, and restore the tribes of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Sirach 48:10 Hebrew you are...time; Greek unclear.

God has commanded that every high mountain and the everlasting hills shall be made low; he has commanded that the valleys shall be filled and the ground leveled, so that the people of Israel may come safely home in the glory of God.

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(A)John was the man the prophet Isaiah was talking about when he said,

“Someone is shouting in the desert,
    ‘Prepare a road for the Lord;
    make a straight path for him to travel!’”

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(A)Someone is shouting in the desert,
    ‘Get the road ready for the Lord;
    make a straight path for him to travel!’”

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23 (A)John answered by quoting the prophet Isaiah:

“I am ‘the voice of someone shouting in the desert:
    Make a straight path for the Lord to travel!’”

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(A)A voice cries out,
“Prepare in the wilderness a road for the Lord!
    Clear the way in the desert for our God!

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(A)As it is written in the book of the prophet Isaiah:

“Someone is shouting in the desert:
    ‘Get the road ready for the Lord;
    make a straight path for him to travel!
Every valley must be filled up,
    every hill and mountain leveled off.
The winding roads must be made straight,
    and the rough paths made smooth.
The whole human race will see God's salvation!’”

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