RYLT(i)
2 As it has been written in the prophets, 'Lo, I send My messenger before your face, who shall prepare your way\'7bwho shall engineer your road\'7d before you,' --
3 'A voice of one calling in the wilderness, Prepare you the way of the Lord, straight make you his paths,' --
4 John came baptizing in the wilderness, and proclaiming a baptism of reformation -- to remission of sins,
5 and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.
6 And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,
7 and he proclaimed, saying, 'He does come -- who is mightier than I -- after me, of whom I am not worthy -- having stooped down -- to loose the latchet of his sandals;
8 I indeed did baptize you with water, but he shall baptize you with the Holy Spirit.'