Isaiah 57:14
Good News Translation
The LORD says, "Let my people return to me. Remove every obstacle from their path! Build the road and make it ready!

New Revised Standard Version
It shall be said, “Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstruction from my people’s way.”

Contemporary English Version
The LORD says, "Clear the road! Get it ready for my people."

New American Bible
And I say: Build up, build up, prepare the way, remove every obstacle from my people’s way.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.

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Isaiah 35:8 And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.

Isaiah 40:3 The voice of one crying in the desert: Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the wilderness the paths of our God.

Isaiah 62:10 Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.

Luke 3:5,6 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 plain. . . .

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Romans 14:13 Let us not therefore judge one another any more. But judge this rather, that you put not a stumblingblock or a scandal in your brother's way.

1 Corinthians 1:23 But we preach Christ crucified: unto the Jews indeed a stumblingblock, and unto the Gentiles foolishness:

1 Corinthians 8:9,13 But take heed lest perhaps this your liberty become a stumblingblock to the weak. . . .

1 Corinthians 10:32,33 Be without offence to the Jew, and to the Gentiles and to the church of God: . . .

2 Corinthians 6:3 Giving no offence to any man, that our ministry be not blamed.

Hebrews 12:13 And make straight steps with your feet: that no one, halting, may go out of the way; but rather be healed.

Context
Healing for the Repentant
14And I will say: Make a way: give free passage, turn out of the path, take away the stumblingblocks out of the way of my people.15For thus saith the High and the Eminent that inhabiteth eternity: and his name is Holy, who dwelleth in the high and holy place, and with a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite.…
Cross References
Psalm 68:4
Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name. Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence,

Isaiah 62:10
Go through, go through the gates, prepare the way for the people, make the road plain, pick out the stones, and lift up the standard to the people.

Jeremiah 18:15
Because my people have forgotten me, sacrificing in vain, and stumbling in their ways, in ancient paths, to walk by them in a way not trodden:

Isaiah 57:13
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