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D&C 109:74 · Isaiah 40:4

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Doctrine and Covenants D&C 109:74
"and the valleys to be exalted, the rough places made smooth"
Old Testament Isaiah 40:4
"Every 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:"

Shared words: the rough places

Two of the prophecy's four clauses recur, compressed: 'Every valley shall be exalted' becomes plural and infinitive, and 'the rough places plain' becomes 'the rough places made smooth', a different adjective for the same clause. The prophecy's two middle clauses have no counterpart in the prayer. D&C 109 is a prayer addressed to God, not a divine first-person address; the section's statements are the petitioners' and are reported as such. Counts are of distinct frozen verses in the corpus, derived by search at the time of writing.

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