UST ISA Chapter 35

35 Someday the wilderness and the dry desert will become fertile,

and the barren plains will produce wildflowers.

2 The desert will surely produce flowers abundantly.

It will seem as if it is happily celebrating!

Yahweh will make it as beautiful as the forests of Lebanon

and as fertile as the plains of Carmel and Sharon.

There people will see how glorious Yahweh is.

Yes, they will see how magnificent our God is.

3 So encourage people who have become discouraged,

and strengthen people who are afraid.

4 Say to those who are anxious,

“Do not be afraid but be brave

because your God is coming to punish his enemies as they deserve.

He himself will come and rescue you.”

5 Then Yahweh will enable blind people to see

and enable deaf people to hear.

6 Then people who could not walk will jump around as deer do,

and people who could not speak will shout joyfully.

Then water will gush out from springs in the desert,

and streams will flow through the barren land.

7 The ground that shimmered with heat will become a pool of water,

and springs will flow in land that once was dry.

Grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow

in places where jackals once lived.

8 There will be a highway through that land,

and people will call it “The Way of Holiness.”

Only people who live as God wants will travel on it.

No one who dishonors God will walk on that road,

and foolish people will not wander onto it.

9 No lions will be there,

and no dangerous animals will go along that road.

Only the people whom God has rescued will walk on it.

10 The people whom Yahweh has set free will return

and come to Zion, singing joyfully.

They will always be happy,

as if they are wearing joy as a crown on their heads.

It will be as if great happiness caught up with them on the road

and has stayed with them.

They will not sigh with sadness anymore.