Isaiah 35:3–10

³Strengthen the weak hands

and make firm the feeble knees.^*

⁴Say to those who are of a fearful heart,

“Be strong, do not fear!

Here is your God.

He will come with vengeance,

with terrible recompense.

He 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 a deer,

and the tongue of the speechless sing for joy.

For waters shall break forth in the wilderness

and streams in the desert;^*

⁷the burning sand shall become a pool

and the thirsty ground springs of water;

the haunt of jackals shall become a swamp;^u

the grass shall become reeds and rushes.^*

⁸A highway shall be there,^v

and it shall be called the Holy Way;

the unclean shall not travel on it,^w

but it shall be for God’s people;^x

no traveler, not even fools, shall go astray.^*

⁹No lion shall be there,

nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;

they shall not be found there,

but the redeemed shall walk there.^*

¹⁰And the ransomed of the Lord shall return

and come to Zion with singing;

everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;

they shall obtain joy and gladness,

and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.^*