^{3 Ref} A voice is crying -- in a wilderness -- Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

^{4 Ref} Every valley is raised up, And every mountain and hill become low, And the crooked place hath become a plain, And the entangled places a valley.

^{5 Ref} And revealed hath been the honour of Jehovah, And seen `it' have all flesh together, For the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken.

^{6 Ref} A voice is saying, `Call,' And he said, `What do I call?' All flesh `is' grass, and all its goodliness `is' As a flower of the field: