Holy Scripture
Isaiah 40:3
A church father on this verse
“Since even then by Isaiah it was Christ, the Word and the Spirit of the Creator who prophetically described John as "the voice of one crying in the wilderness to prepare the way of the Lord." And [he] was about to come forth for the purpose of terminating from that point onwards the course of the law and the prophets:…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
3The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
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In context
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith God.
2Speak, ye priests, to the heart of Jerusalem; comfort her, for her humiliation is accomplished, her sin is put away: for she has received of the Lord’s hand double the amount of her sins.
— Isaiah 40:3 —
4Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low: and all the crooked ways shall become straight, and the rough places plains.
5And the glory of the Lord shall appear, and all flesh shall see the salvation of God: for the Lord has spoken it.