Isaiah 49

8 This is what the Lord says: “In the time of my favor I will answer you,     and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you     to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land     and 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 roads     and 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 them     and 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.[b]” 13 Shout for joy, you heavens;     rejoice, you earth;     burst into song, you mountains! For the Lord comforts his people     and will have compassion on his afflicted ones. 23 Kings will be your foster fathers,     and their queens your nursing mothers. They will bow down before you with their faces to the ground;     they will lick the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the Lord;     those who hope in me will not be disappointed. ”