Isaiah 35:1
Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily.
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Psalms 97:8The rivers shall clap their hands together; the mountains shall exult. + 97:8 Alex. + before the Lord, for he comes.
Isaiah 27:6they that are coming are the children of Jacob. Israel shall bud and blossom, and the world shall be filled with his fruit.
Isaiah 29:17Is it not yet a little while, and Libanus shall be changed as the mountain of Chermel, and Chermel shall be reckoned as a forest?
Isaiah 40:3+ 40:3 Mat. 3. 3; John 1. 23. The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight the paths of our God.
Isaiah 51:3And now I will comfort thee, O Sion: and I have comforted all her desert places; and I will make her desert places as a garden, and her + 51:3 Heb. שוב ambiguous.western places as the garden of the Lord; they shall find in her gladness and exultation, thanksgiving and the voice of praise.
Isaiah 55:12For ye shall go forth with joy, and shall be taught with gladness: for the mountains and the hills shall exult to welcome you with joy, and all the trees of the field shall applaud with their branches.
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 →