“I have answered you in a time of favor,
    and helped you on a day of salvation,
and watched over you,
    and given you as a covenant of the people,
to raise up the land,
    to give the desolate hereditary property as an inheritance,
⁹ saying to the prisoners,^[a] “Come out!”
    to those who are in darkness, “Show yourselves!”
they shall feed along^[b] the ways,
    and their pasturage shall be on all the barren heights.
¹⁰ They shall not be hungry or thirsty,
    and heat and sun shall not strike them,
for he who takes pity on them will lead them,
    and he will guide them to springs of water.