¹⁸ I will open rivers on the barren heights,^(A)
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool
and dry land into springs.^(B)

¹⁹ Look, I am about to do something new;^(A)
even now it is coming. Do you not see it?
Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness,^(B)
rivers^[a] in the desert.
²⁰ Wild animals—
jackals and ostriches—will honor me,
because I provide water in the wilderness,
and rivers in the desert,^(C)
to give drink to my chosen people.

¹⁸ If only you had paid attention to my commands.
Then your peace would have been like a river,^(A)
and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.^(B)

I will make peace flow to her like a river,^(A)
and the wealth^[a] of nations like a flood;^(B)
you will nurse and be carried on her hip^(C)
and bounced on her lap.