Text -- Isaiah 35:9-10 (NET)

35:9 No lions will be there, no ferocious wild animals will be on it– they will not be found there. Those delivered from bondage will travel on it, 35:10 those whom the Lord has ransomed will return that way. They will enter Zion with a happy shout. Unending joy will crown them, happiness and joy will overwhelm them; grief and suffering will disappear.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Isa 35:9

¹ tn Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”

NET Notes: Isa 35:10

¹ tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”

² tn Heb “[will be] on their head[s].” “Joy” may be likened here to a crown (cf. 2 Sam 1:10). The statement may also be an ironic twist on the idiom “earth/dust on the head” (cf. 2 Sam 1:2; 13:19; 15:32; Job 2:12), referring to a mourning practice.

³ tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”

⁴ tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”