Isaiah 35:1
The wilderness and dry land will celebrate; the desert will blossom like the crocus.
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Psalms 97:8Jerusalem hears this and celebrates; all the towns of Judah are happy because of your judgments, Lord.
Isaiah 27:6In the future the descendants of Jacob will be like a tree taking root. Israel will flower and send out shoots, and fill the whole world with fruit!
Isaiah 29:17It won't be long and the forests of Lebanon will be turned into a productive field, and a productive field will seem like a forest.
Isaiah 40:3A voice is heard calling, “Prepare the way for the Lord in the wilderness, make a straight highway for our God through the desert.
Isaiah 51:3The Lord will care for Zion and feel sorry about all her ruined places. He will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert areas like the garden of the Lord. People there will have joy and happiness, giving thanks and singing sweet songs.
Isaiah 55:12You will live happily, taught the ways of peace. Mountains and hills will celebrate, singing beside you; and all the trees will clap their hands!
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 →