⁷ The burning sand will become a pool,
    the thirsty ground^(A) bubbling springs.^(B)
In the haunts where jackals^(C) once lay,
    grass and reeds^(D) and papyrus will grow.

⁸ And a highway^(E) will be there;
    it will be called the Way of Holiness;^(F)
    it will be for those who walk on that Way.
The unclean^(G) will not journey on it;
    wicked fools will not go about on it.
⁹ No lion^(H) will be there,
    nor any ravenous beast;^(I)
    they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed^(J) will walk there,
¹⁰     and those the Lord has rescued^(K) will return.
They will enter Zion with singing;^(L)
    everlasting joy^(M) will crown their heads.
Gladness^(N) and joy will overtake them,
    and sorrow and sighing will flee away.^(O)

²³ They will not labor in vain,^(A)
    nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;^(B)
for they will be a people blessed^(C) by the Lord,
    they and their descendants^(D) with them.
²⁴ Before they call^(E) I will answer;^(F)
    while they are still speaking^(G) I will hear.
²⁵ The wolf and the lamb^(H) will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox,^(I)
    and dust will be the serpent’s^(J) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
    on all my holy mountain,”^(K)
says the Lord.