1 The Midbar (desert) and the Tziyyah (dry land) shall be glad over them;*, see 35:9

and the Aravah shall rejoice,

and blossom like the khavatzelet (lily).

2 It shall bloom abundantly,

and rejoice even with gilat (rejoicing) and rannein (joyous singing);

the kavod haLevanon (glory of Lebanon) shall be given unto her (the Aravah),

the hadar (majesty) of Carmel and Sharon;

they* shall see the Kavod Hashem (glory of Hashem),

and the Hadar Eloheinu (majesty of our G-d).

3 Make ye the weak hands chazak (strong),

and steady the birkayim (knees) koshlot (feeble ones [knees] that give way, i.e., of those of the Golus returning to G-d in Tziyon).

4 Say to them that are of a fearful lev,

Be strong, fear not;

hinei, Eloheichem (your G-d) will come with nakam (vengeance),

with Elohim gemul (divine retribution)

He will come and save you.

5 Then the eyes of the ivvrim (blind people) shall be opened,

and the ears of the chereshim (deaf ones) shall be unstopped.

6 Then shall the pisei'ach (lame) leap like the deer,

and the leshon (tongue) of the illem (the mute, the people unable to utter speech) sing for joy;

for in the midbar shall mayim break forth,

and streams in the Aravah.

7 And the sharav (burning sand) shall become an agam (pool, lake, pond)

and the thirsty land, springs of mayim;

in the habitation of jackals, where each [jackal] lay, shall be khatzir (grassland)

as well as reeds and gomeh (papyrus, bulrushes).

8 And a maslul (highway) shall be there, and a derech (road),

and it shall be called The Derech HaKodesh (The Holy Road);

the tameh (unclean, impure person [see Isa 26:7]) shall not pass along it,

inasmuch as it shall be for them,

that is, the Holech Derech (Walker of the Road, i.e., whoever is the [Redeemed] Wayfarer on the Derech HaKodesh),

even evilim (morally bad foolish people) shall not go astray thereon.

9 No aryeh (lion) shall be there,

nor any peritz chayyot (ravenous, dangerous, ferocious of [wild] beasts) shall go up thereon,

it shall not be found there;

but the Ge'ulim (redeemed people) shall walk there;

10 And the Peduyei Hashem (ransomed ones of Hashem) shall return,

and come to Tziyon with songs

and simchat olam (everlasting joy) upon their heads;

they shall obtain sasson (joy) and simchah (gladness),

and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.