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1 The Midbar (desert) and the Tziyyah (dry land) shall be glad over them;*
and the Aravah shall rejoice,
and blossom like the khavatzelet (lily).
2 It shall bloom abundantly,
and rejoice even with gilat (rejoicing) and rannein (joyous singing);
the kavod haLevanon (glory of Lebanon) shall be given unto her (the Aravah),
the hadar (majesty) of Carmel and Sharon;
they† shall see the Kavod Hashem(glory of Hashem),
and the Hadar Eloheinu (majesty of our G-d).
3 Make ye the weak hands chazak (strong),
and steady the birkayim (knees) koshlot (feeble ones [knees] that give way, i.e., of those of the Golus returning to G-d in Tziyon).
4 Say to them that are of a fearful lev,
Be strong, fear not;
hinei, Eloheichem (your G-d) will come with nakam (vengeance),
with Elohim gemul (divine retribution)
He will come and save you.
5 Then the eyes of the ivvrim (blind people) shall be opened,
and the ears of the chereshim (deaf ones) shall be unstopped.
6 Then shall the pisei'ach (lame) leap like the deer,
and the leshon (tongue) of the illem (the mute, the people unable to utter speech) sing for joy;
for in the midbar shall mayim break forth,
and streams in the Aravah.
7 And the sharav (burning sand) shall become an agam (pool, lake, pond)
and the thirsty land, springs of mayim;
in the habitation of jackals, where each [jackal] lay, shall be khatzir (grassland)
as well as reeds and gomeh (papyrus, bulrushes).
8 And a maslul (highway) shall be there, and a derech (road),
and it shall be called The Derech HaKodesh (The Holy Road);
the tameh (unclean, impure person [see Isa 26:7]) shall not pass along it,
inasmuch as it shall be for them,
that is, the Holech Derech (Walker of the Road, i.e., whoever is the [Redeemed] Wayfarer on the Derech HaKodesh),
even evilim (morally bad foolish people) shall not go astray thereon.
9 No aryeh (lion) shall be there,
nor any peritz chayyot (ravenous, dangerous, ferocious of [wild] beasts) shall go up thereon,
it shall not be found there;
but the Ge'ulim (redeemed people) shall walk there;
10 And the Peduyei Hashem(ransomed ones of Hashem) shall return,
and come to Tziyon with songs
and simchat olam (everlasting joy) upon their heads;
they shall obtain sasson (joy) and simchah (gladness),
and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
* 35:1 the redeemed of Hashem, see 35:9 † 35:2 i.e., the desert and dry land in v.1