John Trapp on Isaiah 40:3

Ver. 3. The voyce of him that cryeth] See Mat. 3.3. John 1.25. with the notes there: but Luke citeth this text more fully than the other Evangeliſts, applying it to the Baptiſt crying in the wilderneſſe, ſc. of Judea, where he firſt preached, or (as ſome ſenſe it) in the ears of a waſte and wild people. Hereby is meant the world, ſaith one, word of Gods grace, barren in all vertue, having no pleaſing abode,Diod. nor ſure direction of any good way in it, being full of horrour, and accurſed.