¹⁹ See, I am doing a new thing!^(A)
    Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the wilderness^(B)
    and streams in the wasteland.^(C)

“From now on I will tell you of new things,^(A)
    of hidden things unknown to you.

⁹ See, the former things^(A) have taken place,
    and new things I declare;
before they spring into being
    I announce^(B) them to you.”

¹⁸ I will make rivers flow^(A) on barren heights,
    and springs within the valleys.
I will turn the desert^(B) into pools of water,^(C)
    and the parched ground into springs.^(D)

⁶ Then will the lame^(A) leap like a deer,^(B)
    and the mute tongue^(C) shout for joy.^(D)
Water will gush forth in the wilderness
    and streams^(E) in the desert.
⁷ The burning sand will become a pool,
    the thirsty ground^(F) bubbling springs.^(G)
In the haunts where jackals^(H) once lay,
    grass and reeds^(I) and papyrus will grow.

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

“A voice of one calling in the wilderness,
‘Prepare the way for the Lord,
    make straight paths for him.
⁵ Every valley shall be filled in,
    every mountain and hill made low.
The crooked roads shall become straight,
    the rough ways smooth.

²² How long will you wander,^(A)
    unfaithful^(B) Daughter Israel?
The Lord will create a new thing^(C) on earth—
    the woman will return to^[a](D) the man.”