1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the
3 Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
4 Say to them
5 Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the lame
7 And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay,
8 And an highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it; but it
9 No lion shall be there, nor
10 And the ransomed of the