I will turn all My mountains into roads, and My highways will be raised up.
Parallel translations
- WEB I will make all my mountains a road, and my highways shall be exalted.
- KJV And I will make all my mountains a way, and my highways shall be exalted.
- NKJV I will make each of My mountains a road, And My highways shall be elevated.
- NASB “I will make all My mountains a road, And My highways will be raised up.
- NLT And I will make my mountains into level paths for them. The highways will be raised above the valleys.
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Quick answer
God will level mountains into roads and raise highways so His people can return home unhindered.
Overview
As in 40:3-4, God removes every obstacle to make a way for His people's return. The transformed landscape pictures the ease and certainty of the journey under His care. This prepared way anticipates the gospel road by which God brings His people home through Christ, who is Himself the way (John 14:6).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Isa 11:16There will be a highway for the remnant of His people who remain from Assyria, as there was for Israel when they came up from the land of Egypt.
- Isa 35:8–10And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
- Luke 3:4–5as 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.
- Isa 62:10Go out, go out through the gates; prepare the way for the people! Build it up, build up the highway; clear away the stones; raise a banner for the nations!
- Isa 57:14And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
- John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- Isa 43:19Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Isa 40:3–4A voice of one calling: “Prepare the way for the LORD in the wilderness; make a straight highway for our God in the desert.
- Ps 107:7He led them on a straight path to reach a city where they could live.
- Ps 107:4Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
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