Listen, everyone who lives on earth! Look for a signal flag to be raised on the mountaintops! Listen for the blowing of the bugle!

A voice cries out, "Prepare in the wilderness a road for the LORD! Clear the way in the desert for our God!

Go out from Babylon, go free! Shout the news gladly; make it known everywhere: "The LORD has saved his servant Israel!"

Be sure to leave Babylonia, all you that carry the Temple equipment. Touch no forbidden thing; keep yourselves holy and leave.

The LORD says, "Let my people return to me. Remove every obstacle from their path! Build the road and make it ready!

Moses built an altar and named it "The LORD is my Banner."

Now go to the main streets and invite to the feast as many people as you find.'

Keep walking on straight paths, so that the lame foot may not be disabled, but instead be healed.

The Lord will raise a signal flag to show the nations that he is gathering together again the scattered people of Israel and Judah and bringing them back from the four corners of the earth.

The Sovereign LORD says to his people: "I will signal to the nations, and they will bring your children home.