8. This is what the Lord says:‘In the time of my favour I will answer you,and in the day of salvation I will help you;I will keep you and will make youto be a covenant for the people,to restore the landand to reassign its desolate inheritances,
9. to say to the captives, “Come out,”and to those in darkness, “Be free!”‘They will feed beside the roadsand find pasture on every barren hill.
10. They will neither hunger nor thirst,nor will the desert heat or the sun beat down on them.He who has compassion on them will guide themand lead them beside springs of water.
11. I will turn all my mountains into roads,and my highways will be raised up.
12. See, they will come from afar –some from the north, some from the west,some from the region of Aswan.’