Isaiah 35

35:1Be glad, O thirsting wilderness! Exult, O wilderness, and bloom as a lily!

35:2And the desolate places of the Jordan shall blossom and exult. The glory of Lebanon was given to it, and the honor of Carmel. And my people shall see the glory of the lord, and the stature of God.

35:3Be strong! O hands being forsaken, and knees being disabled.

35:4Take comfort! O faint-hearted in mind. Be strong! Do not fear! Behold, our God recompenses judgment, and he will recompense. He himself shall come, and he shall deliver us.

35:5Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear.

35:6Then the lame shall leap as a stag, and the tongue of the stammering will be plain; for water was torn forth in the wilderness, and a ravine in a thirsting land.

35:7And the waterless place will be turned into marshes, and the thirsting land into a spring of water. There will be there a gladness of birds, properties of reed and marshes.

35:8There will be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and in no way shall anything unclean pass by there; nor shall there be there an unclean way. But the ones having been scattered shall go upon it, and in no way shall they wander.

35:9And there will not be a lion there. Nor the ferocious wild beasts in any way shall ascend unto it, nor even should be found there. But the ones being ransomed shall go in it,

35:10even ones being gathered together by the lord. And they shall return, and shall come to Zion with gladness; even eternal gladness is upon their head. For upon their head is praise and a leap for joy. And gladness shall overtake them; grief and distress and moaning ran away.