Isaiah 35:1
The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.
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Psalms 97:8Zion gave ear and was glad; and the daughters of Judah were full of joy, because of your decisions, O Lord.
Isaiah 27:6In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.
Isaiah 29:17In a very short time Lebanon will become a fertile field, and the fertile field will seem like a wood.
Isaiah 40:3A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.
Isaiah 51:3For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.
Isaiah 55:12For you will go out with joy, and be guided in peace: the mountains and the hills will make melody before you, and all the trees of the fields will make sounds of joy.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 35:1
As after a prediction of God's judgments upon the world ( ch. xxiv. ) follows a promise of great mercy to be had in store for his church ( ch. xxv. ), so here after a black and dreadful scene of confusion in the foregoing chapter we have, in this, a bright and pleasant one, which, though it foretel the flourishing estate of Hezekiah's kingdom in the latter part of his reign, yet surely looks as far beyond that as the prophecy in the foregoing chapter does beyond the destruction of the Edomites; both were typical,… Read the whole commentary →