3The 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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Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the LORD of hosts.
As it is written in the prophets, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. …
He said, I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as said the prophet Esaias.
In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judaea, …
And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 3-8)The time to favour Zion, yea, the set time, having come, the people of God must be prepared, by repentance and faith, for the favours designed them; and, in order to call them to both these, we have here the voice of one crying in the wilderness , which may be applied to those prophets who were with the captives in their wilderness-state, and who, when they saw the day of their deliverance dawn, c…
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