This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
“Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me. And the Lord whom you seek will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant in whom you delight, behold, he is coming, says the Lord of hosts.
And you, child, will be called the prophet of the Most High; for you will go before the Lord to prepare his ways,
As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way,
He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.”
for he will be great before the Lord. And he must not drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even from his mother's womb. And he will turn many of the children of Israel to the Lord their God, and he will go before him in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just, to make ready for the Lord a people prepared.”
This is he of whom it is written, “‘Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way before you.’
“Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the great and awesome day of the Lord comes. And he will turn the hearts of fathers to their children and the hearts of children to their fathers, lest I come and strike the land with a decree of utter destruction.”
A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
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