Isaiah 35:1
They rejoice from the wilderness and dry place, || And the desert rejoices, || And flourishes as the rose,
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Psalms 97:8Zion has heard and rejoices, || And daughters of Judah are joyful, || Because of Your judgments, O YHWH.
Isaiah 27:6He causes those coming in to take root, || Jacob blossoms, and Israel has flourished, || And they have filled the face of the world [with] increase.
Isaiah 29:17Is it not yet a very little [while], || And Lebanon has turned into a fruitful field, || And the fruitful field is reckoned for a forest?
Isaiah 40:3A voice is crying in a wilderness: “Prepare the way of YHWH, || Make straight in a desert a highway for our God.
Isaiah 51:3For YHWH has comforted Zion, || He has comforted all her ruins, || And He sets her wilderness as Eden, || And her desert as a garden of YHWH, || Joy, indeed, gladness is found in her, || Confession, and the voice of song.
Isaiah 55:12For you go forth with joy, || And you are brought in with peace, || The mountains and the hills || Break forth before you [with] singing, || And all trees of the field clap the hand.
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 →