3 Listen! Someone is calling out* in the wilderness:+ “Clear up the way* of Jehovah,+ YOU people! MAKE the highway for our God through* the desert plain straight.*+

10 This is he concerning whom it is written, ‘Look! I myself am sending forth my messenger* before your face, who will prepare your way ahead of you!’+

16 and many of the sons of Israel will he turn back to Jehovah*+ their God.

23 He said: “I am a voice of someone crying out in the wilderness, ‘MAKE the way of Jehovah* straight,’ just as Isaiah the prophet said.”+