Isaiah 49:8–13

Yahweh Restores the Afflicted

8 Thus says Yahweh:

“I have answered you in a time of favor,

and helped you on a day of salvation,

and watched over you,

and given you as a covenant of the people,

to raise up the land,

to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,

9 saying to the ⌊prisoners⌋,j “Come out!”

to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves!”

they shall feed ⌊along⌋k the ways,

and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights.

10 They shall not be hungry or thirsty,

and heat and sun shall not strike them,

for he who takes pity on them will lead them,

and he will guide them to springs of water.

11 And I will ⌊make⌋l all my mountains like a road,

and my highways shall lead up.m

12 Look! These shall come from afar,

And look! These from the north and from the west

and these from the land of Sinim.”

13 Sing for joy, heavens, and rejoice, earth!

Mountains must break forth in rejoicing!

For Yahweh has comforted his people,

and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.