“I’ll answer^[a] you in a time of favor,
    and on a day of salvation I’ll help^[b] you.
I have watched over you,
    and given you as a covenant for the people,
to restore the land,
    to reassign the inheritances that have been devastated;
⁹ saying to captives, ‘Come out!’
    and^[c] to those who are in darkness, ‘Be free!’^[d]

“They will feed on all the mountains,^[e]
    and their pasture will be on all the barren hills.
¹⁰ They won’t hunger or thirst,
    nor will the desert heat or sun beat upon them;
for the one who has compassion on them will drive them
    and guide them alongside springs of water.