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fear not!</span><br /><span class="ln-group">Behold, your God</span><br /><span class="indent">will come with vengeance,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">with the recompense of God.</span><br /><span class="indent">He will come and save you.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the ears of the deaf unstopped;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">then shall the lame man leap like a deer,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the tongue of the mute sing for joy.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">For waters break forth in the wilderness,</span><br /><span class="indent">and streams in the desert;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">the burning sand shall become a pool,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the thirsty ground springs of water;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">in the haunt of jackals, where they lie down,</span><br /><span class="indent">the grass shall become reeds and rushes.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And a highway shall be there,</span><br /><span class="indent">and it shall be called the Way of Holiness;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the unclean shall not pass over it.</span><br /><span class="indent">It shall belong to those who walk on the way;</span><br /><span class="indent">even if they are fools, they shall not go astray.<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or if they are fools, they shall not wander in it">a</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">No lion shall be there,</span><br /><span class="indent">nor shall any ravenous beast come up on it;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall not be found there,</span><br /><span class="indent">but the redeemed shall walk there.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/35-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And the ransomed of the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> shall return</span><br /><span class="indent">and come to Zion with singing;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">everlasting joy shall be upon their heads;</span><br /><span class="indent">they shall obtain gladness and joy,</span><br /><span class="indent">and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">8</span> Or <i><span class="catch-word">if they are fools, they shall not</span> wander in it</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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