Isaiah 35:3–10

³Strengthen the weak hands

and make the staggering knees firm.

⁴Say to those who are hasty of heart,

“Be strong; you must not fear!

Look! your God will come with vengeance,

with divine retribution.^c

He is the one who^d will come and save you.”

⁵Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,

and the ears of the deaf shall be opened.

⁶Then the lame shall leap like the deer,

and the tongue of the dumb shall sing for joy,

for waters shall break forth in the wilderness

and streams in the desert.

⁷And the parched ground shall become a pool,

and the thirsty ground springs of water.

Her resting place is in a settlement of jackals;

the grass shall become like reeds^e and rushes.^f

⁸And a highway shall be there, and a way,

and it shall be called the way of holiness.

The unclean shall not travel through it,

but^g it is for them, he who walks on the way;

and fools shall not wander about.

⁹No lion shall be there,

and no ferocious wild beast shall go up it.

It shall not be found there,

but^h the redeemed shall walk there.

¹⁰And the ransomed of Yahweh shall return,

and they shall come to Zion with rejoicing.

And everlasting joy shall be on their head;

joy and gladness shall overtake them,

and sorrow and sighing shall flee.