Isaiah 35
The desolate land will rejoice and flourish, receiving the glory of the Lord and the beauty of God. The weak and fainthearted are encouraged to take courage, as God will bring vindication and salvation. The blind, deaf, disabled, and mute will be healed, and the dry land will have water and greenery. A holy path will be established, free from harm, where the redeemed of the Lord will walk and return to Zion with everlasting joy.
The desolate and impassable land will rejoice, and the place of solitude will exult, and it will flourish like the lilyIt will spring up and blossom, and it will exult with rejoicing and praising. The glory of Lebanon has been given to it, with the beauty of Carmel and Sharon. These will see the glory of the Lord and the beauty of our GodStrengthen the lax hands, and confirm the weak kneesSay to the fainthearted: "Take courage and fear not! Behold, your God will bring the vindication of retribution. God himself will arrive to save you.Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be clearedThen the disabled will leap like a buck, and the tongue of the mute will be untied. For the waters have burst forth in the desert, and torrents in solitary placesAnd the land that was dry will have a pond, and the thirsty land will have fountains of water. In the hollows where the serpents lived before, there will rise up the greenery of reed and bulrushAnd there shall be a path and a road in that place. And it will be called the Holy Way. The defiled will not pass through it. For this will be an upright path for you, so much so that the foolish will not wander along itThere will be no lions in that place, and harmful wild animals will neither climb up to it, nor be found there. Only those who have been freed will walk in that placeAnd the redeemed of the Lord will be converted, and they will return to Zion with praising. And everlasting joy will be upon their heads. They will obtain gladness and rejoicing. For pain and sorrow will flee away
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