有人声喊着说：“在旷野预备耶和华的路，在沙漠地修平我们神的道。

有声音呼喊着：“要在旷野为耶和华预备道路，在沙漠为我们的上帝修直大道。

有声音呼喊着：“要在旷野为耶和华预备道路，在沙漠为我们的神修直大道。

听啊，有人高喊：“在旷野预备耶和华的道，在沙漠修直我们上帝的路。

有声音呼喊说：“你们要在旷野清理耶和华的路，在沙漠修直我们神的大道。

有声音呼喊着：“要在旷野预备耶和华的道路，在荒漠为我们的神修直大道！

有人聲喊着說：在曠野預備耶和華的路，在沙漠地修平我們神的道。

有聲音呼喊着：「要在曠野為耶和華預備道路，在沙漠為我們的上帝修直大道。

有聲音呼喊着：「要在曠野為耶和華預備道路，在沙漠為我們的神修直大道。

聽啊，有人高喊：「在曠野預備耶和華的道，在沙漠修直我們上帝的路。

有聲音呼喊說：“你們要在曠野清理耶和華的路，在沙漠修直我們神的大道。

在曠野有聲音呼喊着說：『要豫備永恆主的道路，要在原野修平我們的上帝的大路。

有聲音呼喊著：「要在曠野預備耶和華的道路，在荒漠為我們的神修直大道！

有聲呼云、在於曠野、備耶和華之道、在於荒墟、治我上帝之徑、

野有聲呼云、在彼曠野、備我上帝耶和華之道、直其徑。

有聲呼曰、在曠野備主之路、在沙漠地為我天主修直其道、或作曠野有聲呼曰當備主之路在沙漠地為我天主修直其道

A voice of one calling:“ In the wilderness prepare the way for the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

A messenger is calling out,“ In the desert prepare the way for the Lord. Make a straight road through it for our God.

A voice cries:“ In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

Listen! It’s the voice of someone shouting,“ Clear the way through the wilderness for the Lord! Make a straight highway through the wasteland for our God!

A voice of one crying out: Prepare the way of the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

The voice of one calling out,“ Clear the way for the Lord in the wilderness; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God.

The voice of one crying in the wilderness:“ Prepare the way of the Lord; Make straight in the desert A highway for our God.

The voice of one that crieth, Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; make level in the desert a highway for our God.

A voice of one crying out: Prepare the way of the Lord in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.

The 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.

A voice cries out,“ In the wilderness clear a way for the LORD; construct in the desert a road for our God.

The voice of one who calls out,“ Prepare the way of Yahweh in the wilderness! Make a level highway in the desert for our God.

“ I will send my messenger, who will prepare the way before me. Then suddenly the Lord you are seeking will come to his temple; the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, will come,” says the Lord Almighty. (niv)

as it is written in Isaiah the prophet:“ I will send my messenger ahead of you, who will prepare your way”—“ a voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘ Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’”And so John the Baptist appeared in the wilderness, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.The whole Judean countryside and all the people of Jerusalem went out to him. Confessing their sins, they were baptized by him in the Jordan River. (niv)

John replied in the words of Isaiah the prophet,“ I am the voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘ Make straight the way for the Lord.’” (niv)

In those days John the Baptist came, preaching in the wilderness of Judeaand saying,“ Repent, for the kingdom of heaven has come near.”This is he who was spoken of through the prophet Isaiah:“ A voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘ Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.’” (niv)

He will bring back many of the people of Israel to the Lord their God.And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous— to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.” (niv)

“ See, I will send the prophet Elijah to you before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes.He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents; or else I will come and strike the land with total destruction.” (niv)

And you, my child, will be called a prophet of the Most High; for you will go on before the Lord to prepare the way for him,to give his people the knowledge of salvation through the forgiveness of their sins, (niv)

And it will be said:“ Build up, build up, prepare the road! Remove the obstacles out of the way of my people.” (niv)

See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. (niv)

And a highway will be there; it will be called the Way of Holiness; it will be for those who walk on that Way. The unclean will not journey on it; wicked fools will not go about on it. (niv)

Pass through, pass through the gates! Prepare the way for the people. Build up, build up the highway! Remove the stones. Raise a banner for the nations.The Lord has made proclamation to the ends of the earth:“ Say to Daughter Zion,‘ See, your Savior comes! See, his reward is with him, and his recompense accompanies him.’” (niv)

during the high- priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the word of God came to John son of Zechariah in the wilderness.He went into all the country around the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins.As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet:“ A voice of one calling in the wilderness,‘ Prepare the way for the Lord, make straight paths for him.Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth.And all people will see God’s salvation.’” (niv)

I will turn all my mountains into roads, and my highways will be raised up. (niv)

Sing to God, sing in praise of his name, extol him who rides on the clouds; rejoice before him— his name is the Lord. (niv)

The Lord will dry up the gulf of the Egyptian sea; with a scorching wind he will sweep his hand over the Euphrates River. He will break it up into seven streams so that anyone can cross over in sandals.There will be a highway for the remnant of his people that is left from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from Egypt. (niv)