Isaiah 49:8-13

World English Bible

⁸ Yahweh says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time.
    I have helped you in a day of salvation.
I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the people,
    to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritage,
⁹ saying to those who are bound, ‘Come out!’;
    to those who are in darkness, ‘Show yourselves!’
“They shall feed along the paths,
    and their pasture shall be on all treeless heights.
¹⁰ They shall not hunger nor thirst;
    neither shall the heat nor sun strike them:
    for he who has mercy on them will lead them.
    He will guide them by springs of water.
¹¹ I will make all my mountains a road,
    and my highways shall be exalted.
¹² Behold, these shall come from afar,
    and behold, these from the north and from the west;
    and these from the land of Sinim.”
¹³ Sing, heavens, and be joyful, earth!
    Break out into singing, mountains,
for Yahweh has comforted his people,
    and will have compassion on his afflicted.