35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,
the mute tongue will shout for joy;
for water will flow 1 in the desert,
streams in the wilderness. 2
35:7 The dry soil will become a pool of water,
the parched ground springs of water.
Where jackals once lived and sprawled out,
grass, reeds, and papyrus will grow.
35:8 A thoroughfare will be there –
it will be called the Way of Holiness. 3
The unclean will not travel on it;
it is reserved for those authorized to use it 4 –
fools 5 will not stray into it.
35:9 No lions will be there,
no ferocious wild animals will be on it 6 –
they will not be found there.
Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,
35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. 7
They will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 8
happiness and joy will overwhelm 9 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 10