3 A voice of one calling out in the wilderness:

“Clear up* the way of Jehovah!+

Make a straight highway+ through the desert for our God.+

5 “Look! I am sending to you E·liʹjah the prophet+ before the coming of the great and awe-inspiring day of Jehovah.+ 6 And he will turn the hearts of fathers back toward sons,+ and the hearts of sons back toward fathers, so that I may not come and strike the earth, devoting it to destruction.”