Isaiah 35:8
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
8 A highway will be there,
called the holy way;
No one unclean may pass over it,
but it will be for his people;
no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray on it.(A)
Isaiah 40:3
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
3 A voice proclaims:[a]
In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord!
Make straight in the wasteland a highway for our God!(A)
Footnotes
- 40:3–5 A description of the return of the exiles from Babylon to Jerusalem (Zion). The language used here figuratively describes the way the exiles will take. The Lord leads them, so their way lies straight across the wilderness rather than along the well-watered routes usually followed from Mesopotamia to Israel. Mt 3:3 and gospel parallels adapt these verses to the witness of John the Baptizer to Jesus.
Isaiah 43:19
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 See, I am doing something new!
Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
In the wilderness I make a way,
in the wasteland, rivers.
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