¹⁵ The toil of fools wearies them;
    they do not know the way to town.

⁴ “In those days, at that time,”
    declares the Lord,
“the people of Israel and the people of Judah together^(A)
    will go in tears^(B) to seek^(C) the Lord their God.
⁵ They will ask the way^(D) to Zion
    and turn their faces toward it.
They will come^(E) and bind themselves to the Lord
    in an everlasting covenant^(F)
    that will not be forgotten.

57 The righteous perish,^(A)
    and no one takes it to heart;^(B)
the devout are taken away,
    and no one understands
that the righteous are taken away
    to be spared from evil.^(C)

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

³ Even as fools walk along the road,
    they lack sense
    and show everyone^(A) how stupid they are.

⁷ He led them by a straight way^(A)
    to a city^(B) where they could settle.

⁴ Some wandered in desert^(A) wastelands,
    finding no way to a city^(B) where they could settle.

“‘Woe to him who piles up stolen goods
    and makes himself wealthy by extortion!^(B)
    How long must this go on?’