Straight

The umbrella STRAIGHT names a street in Damascus (Acts 9:11) and a small figurative cluster on righteousness as "straight paths." The Damascus street sits in territory the UPDV does not carry, since Acts is outside UPDV scope. What remains for the figurative sense is a short pairing: a wilderness summons in Isaiah and a corresponding charge in Hebrews.

Straight, As a Place

The street called Straight in Damascus belongs to Acts 9:11, which is outside UPDV scope and therefore unquoted here. Readers needing the place reference will find it in the Acts narrative of Saul's blindness and Ananias's visit; the UPDV supplies no text for that verse.

Straight, As a Figure for Righteousness

The figurative reach of "straight" in the UPDV runs along a road metaphor — a way prepared, paths made level, feet kept on track.

A voice in the wilderness summons preparation: "The voice of one who cries, Prepare⁺ in the wilderness the way of Yahweh; make level in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley will be exalted, and every mountain and hill will be made low; and the uneven will be made level, and the rough places a plain" (Isa 40:3-4). The plural-you ⁺ puts the work of clearing on a community, not a single agent; the imagery moves from a voice through landscape leveling toward a finished highway.

Hebrews picks up the same road idiom and turns it inward: "and make straight paths for your⁺ feet, that that which is lame not be turned out of the way, but rather be healed" (Heb 12:13). Here the straight path is a pastoral concern — the path is straightened so the lame walker is not forced off it, but kept on for healing. The community-directed ⁺ again locates the duty in the readership rather than in a single bearer.

Read together, the two verses share a shape: a path is made straight so that movement along it succeeds — Yahweh's coming in Isaiah, the lame walker's healing in Hebrews.