Isaiah 35:1
The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad thereat; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the lily.
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Psalms 97:8Zion heareth it, and rejoiceth; and glad are the daughters of Judah, because of thy decrees, O Lord.
Isaiah 27:6In the future shall Jacob yet take root; Israel shall bud and blossom, and shall fill the face of the world with fruit.
Isaiah 29:17Lo! but yet a very little while more, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest!
Isaiah 40:3A voice calleth out, In the wilderness make ye clear the way of the Lord, make straight in the desert a highway for God.
Isaiah 51:3Yea, the Lord hath comforted Zion; he hath comforted all her ruins; and he hath made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord: gladness and joy shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of song.
Isaiah 55:12For in joy shall ye go out, and in peace shall ye be brought home: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into song, and all the trees of the field shall 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 →