Live By Faith and Not By Sight

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Isaiah 35

The desert and parched land will be glad;
the wilderness will rejoice and blossom.
Like a corcus, it will burst into bloom;
it will greatly rejoice and shout for joy.
The glory of Lebanon will be given to it,
the splendor of Carmel and Sharon;
They will see the glory of the LORD,
the splendor of our God.

Strengthen the feeble hands
steady the knees that give way;
Say to those with fearful hearts,
“Be strong, do not fear;
your God will come,
he will come with vengeance;
with divine retribution 
he will come to save you.”

Then will the eyes of the blind be opened
and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Then will the lame leap like a deer,
and the mute tongue shout for joy. 

Water will gush forth in the wilderness
and streams in the desert.
The burning sand will become a pool,
and the thirsty ground bubbling springs,
in haunts where jackels once lay,
grass and reeds and papyrus will grow.

And a highway will be there;
it will be called the Way of Holiness.
the unclean will not journey on it;
it will be for those who walk in the Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
nor any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed walk there,
and the ransom of the Lord will return. 
They will enter Zion with singing;
everlasting joy will crown their heads.
Gladness and joy will overtake them,
and sorrow and sighing will flee away 

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