Isaiah 35

Berean Standard Bible

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The wilderness and dry land will rejoice, blooming profusely and receiving the splendor of Lebanon, Carmel, and Sharon to reveal the glory of the Lord. People are instructed to strengthen weak hands, steady feeble knees, and tell anxious hearts that God will come with vengeance and retribution to save them. Upon His arrival, the eyes of the blind will open, deaf ears will be unstopped, lame people will leap like deer, and mute tongues will shout for joy. Waters will gush forth in the desert, turning parched ground into pools and springs where grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow instead of jackals' lairs. A secure highway named the Way of Holiness will be established, free of lions and vicious beasts, allowing only the redeemed to travel upon it. Finally, the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing and everlasting joy, while sorrow and sighing flee away.

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¹The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose. ²It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God. ³Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees! ⁴Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.” ⁵Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped. ⁶Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert. ⁷The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus. ⁸And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it. ⁹No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it. ¹⁰So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.

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