3 Strengthen the weak hands,and support the feeble knees.
4 Say to those who are of a fearful heart,“Be strong, fear not.Your God will comewith vengeance,even God with a recompense;He will come and save you.”
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then the lame man shall leap as a deer,and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.For in the wilderness waters shall break outand streams in the desert.
7 The parched ground shall become a pool,and the thirsty land springs of water;in the habitation of jackals where each lay,there shall be grass with reeds and rushes.
8 A highway shall be there, a roadway,and it shall be called the Highway of Holiness.The unclean shall not pass on it,but it shall be for the wayfaring men,and fools shall not wander on it.
9 No lion shall be there,nor any ravenous beast shall go up on it;these shall not be found there,but the redeemed shall walk there,