“Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;”
Every valley shall be filled in, every mountain and hill made low. The crooked roads shall become straight, the rough ways smooth — the prophetic poetry of Isaiah 40:4 communicates the comprehensive transformation of the landscape for the royal arrival. Valleys filled, mountains lowered, crooked roads straightened, rough ways smoothed: the entire terrain of resistance is leveled before the arriving Lord. The imagery is simultaneously literal (ancient road-preparation for royal visits) and metaphorical (the moral preparation of the community).
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