John 1:23

Verse

Ἔφη, Ἐγὼ φωνὴ βοῶντος ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, Εὐθύνατε τὴν ὁδὸν Κυρίου, καθὼς εἶπεν Ἠσαΐας ὁ προφήτης.

RBT Greek Interlinear:

5346; Ephē; Ἔφη; Was saying; V-IIA-3S

1473; Egō; Ἐγὼ; I/Myself; PPro-N1S

5456; phōnē; φωνὴ; a voice; N-NFS

994; boōntos; βοῶντος; he who is crying; V-PPA-GMS

1722; en; ἐν; within; Prep

3588; tē; τῇ; the; Art-DFS

2048; erēmō; ἐρήμῳ; wilderness; Adj-DFS

2116; Euthynate; Εὐθύνατε; Make straight; V-AMA-2P

3588; tēn; τὴν; the; Art-AFS

3598; hodon; ὁδὸν; road; N-AFS

2962; Kyriou; Κυρίου; Lord; N-GMS

2531; kathōs; καθὼς; just as; Adv

2036; eipen; εἶπεν; said; V-AIA-3S

2268; Ēsaias; Ἠσαΐας; He is Liberator; N-NMS

3588; ho; ὁ; the; Art-NMS

4396; prophētēs; προφήτης; a prophet; N-NMS

RBT Translation:

And Elohim Heard the Voice of the Boy - Genesis 21:17

He said, myself is a voice³⁹ of him who cries out within the Desolate one,⁴⁰ "Make straight the Road of Master according to what He is Liberator [Isaiah] the Prophet has spoken."⁴¹

The "Road of Master" is not straight.

LITV Translation:
He said, "I am a voice crying in the wilderness:" "Make straight" "the way of the Lord," as Isaiah the prophet said. Isa. 40:3

ESV Translation:
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.”

Footnotes

39

Strong’s #G5456, phóné. Sound, noise. “Voice” may be implied, and then, maybe not, “a noise [phóné] was heard in Ramah” (Matt. 2:18). From which we get words like telephone, microphone, etc.

40

Strong’s #G2048, erémos. An adjective that means solitary, desolate. The widow.

"How she has sat separated/lonely, the Awakened one of a multplied gathering, she has become a widow, multiplied within the Backward ones [the Goyim]. A princess within the places of judgement has become to a forced-labor-body. ס" (Lamentations 1:1 RBT)

41

Many know this to be a reference to Isaiah 40:3. What many do not know is that both are a reference to an earlier story, the voice of Ishmael in the wilderness (Genesis 21:15).