Isaiah 35: 3-10

Encourage the exhausted
and strengthen the feeble.
Say to those with an anxious heart,
"Take courage, fear not.
Behold your God will come with vengeance;
The recompense of God will come,
But he will save you."

Then the eyes of the blind will be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then the lame will leap like a deer,
and the tongue of the mute will shout for joy.

For waters will break forth in the wilderness
and streams in the Arabah.
The scorched land will become a pool
and the thirsty ground springs of water.
In the haunt of jackals its resting place
Grass becomes reeds and rushes.

A highway will be there, a roadway
And it will be called the Highway of Holiness.
The unclean will not travel on it,
but it will be for him who walks that way.
And fools will not wander on it.
No lion will be there,
Nor will any vicious beast go up on it;
These will not be found there,
but the redeemed will walk there.

And the ransomed of the Lord will return
and come with joyful shouting to Zion
with everlasting joy upon their heads.
They will find gladness and joy,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away.