Yahweh Restores the Afflicted

• 8 Thus says Yahweh:“I have answered you in a time of favor,
  • and helped you on a day of salvation,
• and watched over you,
  • and given you as a covenant of the people,
• to raise up the land,
  • to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,
  • 9 [fn] “Come out!” to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves!”
• they shall feed[fn] the ways,
  • and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights.
  • 10  and heat and sun shall not strike them,
• for he who takes pity on them will lead them,
  • and he will guide them to springs of water.
  • 11 [fn] all my mountains like a road, and my highways shall lead up.[fn]
  • 12  And look! These from the north and from the west
  • and these from the land of Sinim.”
  • 13  Mountains must break forth in rejoicing!
• For Yahweh has comforted his people,
  • and he will take pity on his afflicted ones.