The future happy condition of God’s redeemed ones
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📚✭The wilderness and the dry lands will be glad for them,
and the desert✭ will rejoice
and blossom✭ like the rose.
2 📚It will blossom abundantly,
and rejoice with gladness and singing.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendour✭ of Carmel and Sharon.
They will see the glory of the LORD,
and the splendour of our God.
3 📚✭Strengthen the weak hands,
and make the feeble knees firm.
4 📚Say to those who are
of a fearful heart,
“Be strong.
Do not fear.
See, your God will come✭
with vengeance✭,
God with retribution.
He will come and save you.
5 📚Then the eyes of the blind
will be opened,
and the ears✭ of the deaf
will be unstopped.
6 📚Then the lame man
will leap like a deer,
and the tongue✭ of the dumb
will sing;
for water will gush out in
the wilderness,
and streams✭ in the desert.
7 📚And the parched ground
will become a pool,
and the thirsty land springs
of water.
In the habitat of jackals,
where each lay,
there will be grass
with reeds and rushes.
8 📚And a highway✭ will be there✭,
and a road,
and it will be called
The Way of Holiness✭.
The unclean will not pass
over it;
but it will be for those
who travel on it.
Fools will not wander onto it. ✭
9 📚No lion will be there,
nor will any ravenous beast✭
go up on it;
it will not be found there.
But the redeemed will walk
there,
10 📚And the ransomed
of the LORD will return,
and come to Zion with songs,
and everlasting joy
on their heads.
They will obtain joy and gladness,
and sorrow and sighing
will flee away✭.