In the path of righteousness there is life, but another path leads to death. ¹ 

Deliverance goes ¹  before him, and prepares ²  a pathway for him. ³ 

You walked through the sea; ¹  you passed through the surging waters, ²  but left no footprints. ³ 

They turn the needy from the pathway, and the poor of the land hide themselves together. ¹ 

The godly bask in the light; the morally upright experience joy. ¹ 

I walk in the path of righteousness, in the pathway of justice,

But he knows the pathway that I take; ¹  if he tested me, I would come forth like gold. ² 

if I looked at the sun ¹  when it was shining, and the moon advancing as a precious thing,

The one who heeds instruction ¹  is on the way to ²  life, but the one who rejects ³  rebuke goes astray.

This is what the Lord says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,

the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make ¹  his paths straight.’” ² 

If my footsteps have strayed from the way, if my heart has gone after my eyes, ¹  or if anything ²  has defiled my hands,

I will instruct and teach you ¹  about how you should live. ²  I will advise you as I look you in the eye. ³ 

John ¹  said, “I am the voice of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Make straight ²  the way for the Lord,’ ³  as Isaiah the prophet said.”

How blessed ²  is the one ³  who does not follow ⁴  the advice ⁵  of the wicked, ⁶  or stand in the pathway ⁷  with sinners, or sit in the assembly ⁸  of scoffers! ⁹ 

“Look, I am about to do something new. Now it begins to happen! ¹  Do you not recognize ²  it? Yes, I will make a road in the desert and paths ³  in the wilderness.

Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make ¹  a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage ²  could cross over?

For he is the one about whom Isaiah the prophet had spoken: ¹  “The voice ²  of one shouting in the wilderness, ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make ³  his paths straight.’” ⁴ 

As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, “The voice ¹  of one shouting in the wilderness: ²  ‘Prepare the way for the Lord, make ³  his paths straight.

The Lover to His Beloved: O my dove, ¹  in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding places of the mountain crags, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your face is lovely.