And a path and a way shall be there, and it shall be called the holy way: the unclean shall not pass over it, and this shall be unto you a straight way, so that fools shall not err therein.
Ibn Ezra
And an highway shall be there, etc. Although the rivers shall swell, still there will be a pathway, etc. מסלול An highway. The way of holiness. So called because of the return of the Israelites to Jerusalem. The unclean shall not pass, etc. No heathen, that is unclean, will pass over it, although it is his own, out of fear: the redeemed alone shall walk on the highway; and furthermore, the wayfaring men, and fools, that are not acquainted with the way, shall not err therein, because it will be a highway.
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