Isaiah 35:1
But the desert & wildernesse shall reioyce, the waste ground shall be glad and florishe as the Lilie.
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Isaiah 27:6The dayes are comming that Iacob shall take roote, Israel shalbe greene and florishe, and the world shalbe filled with fruite.
Isaiah 29:17Is it not harde at hande that Libanus shalbe turned into a low fielde, and that the lowe fielde shalbe taken as the wood?
Isaiah 40:3A voyce crieth in wildernesse: Prepare the way of the Lorde, make strayght the path of our God in the desert.
Isaiah 51:3Therfore shall the Lorde comfort Sion, and repayre all her decay, makyng her desert as a paradise, and her wildernesse as the garden of the Lorde: Mirth and ioy shalbe founde there, thankesgeuyng and the voyce of prayse.
Isaiah 55:12And so shall ye go foorth with ioy, and be led with peace: The mountaynes and hylles shall syng with you for ioy, and all the trees of the fielde shal clappe their handes.
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 →