17AND HE HE HAS CAST FOR THEM A LOT AND HAND HIS IT HAS DISTRIBUTED IT TO THEM BY THE MEASURING-LINE UNTIL PERPETUITY THEY WILL POSSESS IT TO A GENERATION AND A GENERATION THEY WILL DWELL IN IT 17He has allotted their portion; His hand has distributed it by measure. They will possess it forever; they will dwell in it from generation to generation.
1THEY WILL REJOICE! [THE] WILDERNESS AND [THE] DRY REGION AND LET IT BE GLAD [THE] DESERT PLAIN SO IT MAY BUD LIKE A CROCUS The Glory of Zion 1The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
2COMPLETELY <TO BUD> IT WILL BUD AND LET IT BE GLAD ALSO GLADNESS AND SHOUTING FOR JOY [THE] GLORY OF <THE> LEBANON IT WILL BE GIVEN TO <THE> IT [THE] SPLENDOR OF <THE> CARMEL AND <THE> SHARON THEY THEY WILL SEE [THE] GLORY OF YAHWEH [THE] SPLENDOR OF GOD OUR 2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
3STRENGTHEN HANDS SLACK AND KNEES STUMBLING MAKE FIRM 3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!*NoteCloseCited in Hebrews 12:12
4SAY TO [PEOPLE] HASTY OF HEART BE STRONG MAY NOT YOU BE AFRAID HERE! GOD YOUR VENGEANCE HE WILL COME [THE] RECOMPENSE OF GOD HE HE WILL COME AND HE MAY DELIVER YOU 4Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
5THEN THEY WILL BE OPENED [THE] EYES OF BLIND [PEOPLE] AND [THE] EARS OF DEAF [PEOPLE] THEY WILL BE UNSTOPPED 5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
6THEN HE WILL LEAP LIKE <THE> DEER A LAME [PERSON] SO IT MAY SHOUT FOR JOY [THE] TONGUE OF A DUMB [PERSON] FOR THEY WILL BURST FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS WATERS AND TORRENTS IN THE DESERT PLAIN 6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
7AND IT WILL BECOME THE PARCHED GROUND <INTO> A POOL AND THIRSTY GROUND <INTO> SPRINGS OF WATER IN A HABITATION OF JACKALS RESTING PLACE ITS HERBAGE <INTO> REED[S] AND PAPYRUS 7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals*NoteCloseOr serpents or dragons once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
8AND IT WILL BE THERE A HIGHWAY AND A WAY AND [THE] WAY OF <THE> HOLINESS IT WILL BE CALLED TO IT NOT HE WILL PASS ALONG IT [THE] UNCLEAN AND IT [WILL BELONG] TO THEM [ONE WHO] WALKS A WAY AND FOOLS NOT THEY WILL WANDER ABOUT 8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it— only those who walk in the Way— and fools will not stray onto it.
9NOT IT WILL BE THERE A LION AND A VIOLENT ONE OF LIVING CREATURES NOT IT WILL GO UP ON IT NOT IT WILL BE FOUND THERE AND THEY WILL WALK REDEEMED [PEOPLE] 9No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
10AND [THE] [PEOPLE] RANSOMED OF YAHWEH THEY WILL RETURN! AND THEY WILL COME ZION WITH A SHOUT OF JOY AND GLADNESS OF PERPETUITY [WILL BE] ON HEAD THEIR JOY AND GLADNESS THEY WILL OVERTAKE [THEM] AND THEY WILL FLEE SORROW AND SIGHING 10So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.