Isaiah 32-35: The Redeemed of the Lord Shall Return

These chapters in Isaiah paint a picture of two different highways:

one is a deserted place

Look, their brave men cry aloud in the streets;
the envoys of peace weep bitterly.
The highways are deserted,
no travelers are on the roads.
The treaty is broken,
its witnesses are despised,
no one is respected.
The land mourns and wastes away, - Is. 33:7-9 NIV

and the other is filled with celebration.

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 that Way;
wicked fools will not go about on it.
No lion will be there,
nor will any ferocious beast get up on it;
they will not be found there.
But only the redeemed will walk there,
and the ransomed 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.- Is. 35:8-10

Someday, the world as we know it will be totally desolate, as God has promised.  No nation will escape his wrath.  But out of that barren wasteland will arise a highway for our God.  And those walking on that highway will enter Zion with singing.  The redeemed of the Lord shall return.