Isaiah 51:3-5

New International Reader's Version

³You can be sure that I will comfort Zion’s people.
    I will look with loving concern on all their destroyed buildings.
I will make their deserts like Eden.
    I will make their dry and empty land like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be there.
    People will sing and give thanks to me.

⁴“Listen to me, my people.
    Pay attention, my nation.
My instruction will go out to the nations.
    I make everything right.
    That will be a guiding light for them.
⁵The time for me to set you free is near.
    I will soon save you.
    My powerful arm will make everything right among the nations.
The islands will put their hope in me.
    They will wait for my powerful arm to act.