Text: Isaiah 26:7
OT Text Referred to: Exodus 23:20
Subject: highway in the wilderness
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Reference Type: Echo
Connection Method(s): Analogy
Significance: Isaiah 26:7 declares "The path (אֹרַח, orach) of the righteous is level; You clear a straight path for the upright," echoing Exodus 23:20 where God promises to send an angel "to protect you along the way (דֶּרֶךְ, derekh) and to bring you to the place I have prepared." Both passages affirm that God personally prepares the way for His people. The exodus promise is concrete — a literal journey through wilderness with angelic protection; Isaiah internalizes the imagery, applying the prepared-path motif to the moral and spiritual journey of the righteous. The God who leveled a road through the wilderness now levels the path of the upright in the present age.