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    saying to the prisoners, “Come out,”
    and to those in darkness, “Show yourselves.”
Along the roads animals[a] will graze;
    their pasture will be on every treeless hilltop.
10 They won’t hunger or thirst;
    the burning heat and sun won’t strike them,
    because one who has compassion for them will lead them
    and will guide them by springs of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads;
    my highways will be built up.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 49:9 Heb lacks animals.

to say to the captives,(A) ‘Come out,’
    and to those in darkness,(B) ‘Be free!’

“They will feed beside the roads
    and find pasture on every barren hill.(C)
10 They will neither hunger nor thirst,(D)
    nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.(E)
He who has compassion(F) on them will guide(G) them
    and lead them beside springs(H) of water.
11 I will turn all my mountains into roads,
    and my highways(I) will be raised up.(J)

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