Yesaya 35:4

35:4 Tell those who panic, ¹ 

“Be strong! Do not fear!

Look, your God comes to avenge!

With divine retribution he comes to deliver you.” ² 

Yesaya 35:6

35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer,

the mute tongue will shout for joy;

for water will flow ³  in the desert,

streams in the wilderness. ⁴ 

Yesaya 35:9-10

35:9 No lions will be there,

no ferocious wild animals will be on it ⁵  –

they will not be found there.

Those delivered from bondage will travel on it,

35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. ⁶ 

They will enter Zion with a happy shout.

Unending joy will crown them, ⁷ 

happiness and joy will overwhelm ⁸  them;

grief and suffering will disappear. ⁹ 

[35:4]  ¹ tn Heb “Say to the hasty of heart,” i.e., those whose hearts beat quickly from fear.

[35:4]  ² tn The jussive form וְיֹשַׁעֲכֶם (vÿyosha’akhem), which is subordinated to the preceding imperfect with vav conjunctive, indicates purpose.

[35:6]  ³ tn Heb “burst forth” (so NAB); KJV “break out.”

[35:6]  ⁴ tn Or “Arabah” (NASB); KJV, NIV, NRSV, NLT “desert.”

[35:9]  ⁵ tn Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”

[35:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”

[35:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

[35:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”

[35:10]  ⁹ tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”