And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
The light keeps shining in the dark, and the darkness has not put it out. “Comprehended” can mean grasped or overcome.
Isaiah 40:3
Isaiah 40:3
The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
A voice calls for a road through the desert for God. The Gospels hear it in John the Baptist, who prepared the way for Jesus.
KJVIsaiah 40:3 in context
1Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. 2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. 3The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for our God. 4Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain: 5And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. 6The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry? All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field:
A prophet speaking to Israel in crisis, full of promises of comfort and of a coming Savior.
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Waiting for God the way a night watchman waits for morning: tired, longing, and sure the dawn will come.
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