35:9 No lions will be there,
no ferocious wild animals will be on it 1 –
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. 2
They will enter Zion with a happy shout.
Unending joy will crown them, 3
happiness and joy will overwhelm 4 them;
grief and suffering will disappear. 5
1 tn Heb “will go up on it”; TEV “will pass that way.”
2 tn Heb “and the redeemed will walk, the ransomed of the Lord will return.”
3 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.
4 tn Heb “will overtake” (NIV); NLT “they will be overcome with.”
5 tn Heb “grief and groaning will flee”; KJV “sorrow and sighing shall flee away.”