Isaiah 40:4

Bishops' Bible (1568)

All valleys shalbe exalted, and euery mountayne and hyll layde lowe: what so is croked shalbe made strayght, and the rough shalbe made playne.

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  • Luke 3:5 : 5 Euery valley shalbe fylled, and euery mountayne & hyll shalbe brought lowe: And thynges that be croked, shalbe made strayght, and the rough wayes shalbe made playne.
  • Ezek 21:26 : 26 Thus saith the Lorde God, I wyll take away the Diademe, and put of the crowne: this shalbe no more the same, I wyll exalt the humble, and abase him that is hye.
  • Isa 2:12-15 : 12 For the day of the Lorde of hoastes shalbe vpon all the proude, loftie, and vpon all that is exalted, and he shalbe brought lowe: 13 And vpon all high and stout Cedar trees of Libanus, and vpon all the okes of Basan. 14 And vpon all the high mountaynes, and vpon all the high hilles, 15 And vpon euery high towre, and vpon euery fenced wall,
  • Isa 45:2 : 2 I wyll go before thee, and make the crooked straigth: I shall breake the brasen doores, and burst the iron barres.
  • Isa 42:15-16 : 15 I wyll make waste both mountaine and hill, and drye vp euery greene thing that groweth theron: I wyll drye vp the fluddes to become Ilandes, and drinke vp the riuers. 16 I wyll bryng the blinde into a streete that they know not, and leade them into a foote path that they are ignoraunt in: I shall make darknesse light before them, and the thing that is crooked to be straight: These things haue I done vnto them, and not forsaken them.
  • Job 40:11-13 : 11 Cast abrode the indignation of thy wrath, and beholde euery one that is proude, and abase him: 12 Loke on euery one that is arrogant, and bring him lowe, & destroy the wicked in their place: 13 Hide them in the dust together, and couer their faces in secrete:
  • Luke 18:14 : 14 I tell you, this man departed home to his house iustified, rather then the other. For euery one that exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.
  • Luke 1:52-53 : 52 He hath put downe the myghtie fro their seates, and exalted them of lowe degree. 53 He hath fylled the hungry with good thynges, & sent away the riche emptie.
  • Ps 113:7-8 : 7 He rayseth vp the simple out of the dust: and lyfteth vp the poore from the dounghyll. 8 For to make him sit with the princes: euen with the princes of his people.
  • Isa 42:11 : 11 Let the wildernesse with the cities lift vp her voyce, the townes also that they of Cedar dwell in: let them be glad that sit vpon rockes of stone, and let them crye downe from the high mountaines,
  • 1 Sam 2:8 : 8 He rayseth vp the poore out of the dust, and lyfteth vp the beggar from the dounghyll, to set them among princes, and to make them inherite the seate of glory: For the pyllers of the earth are the lordes, and he hath set the worlde vpon them.
  • Ezek 17:24 : 24 And all the trees of the fielde shall knowe that I the Lorde haue brought downe the hye tree, and exalted the lowe tree, that I haue dryed vp the greene tree, and made the drye tree to florishe, euen I the Lorde that spake it, haue also brought it to passe.
  • Prov 2:15 : 15 Whose wayes are croked, and they frowarde in their pathes.

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