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Scorching sand
    will turn into a lake,
and thirsty ground
    will flow with fountains.
Grass will grow in deserts,
where packs of wild dogs
    once made their home.[a]

God's Sacred Highway

A good road will be there,
and it will be named
    “God's Sacred Highway.”
It will be for God's people;
no one unfit to worship God
    will walk on that road.
And no fools can travel
    on that highway.[b]
No lions or other wild animals
    will come near that road;
only those the Lord has saved
    will travel there.

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Footnotes

  1. 35.7 Grass … home: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 35.8 And … highway: Or “And not even a fool can miss that highway.”

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.

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.
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,

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