Isaiah 35:1
The wilderness and the parched land shall be glad, And the desert rejoice and blossom as the rose;
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Psalms 97:8Zion hath heard, and is glad, And the daughters of Judah exult On account of thy judgments, O LORD!
Isaiah 27:6In coming days shall Jacob take root, And Israel flourish and bud forth, And fill the world with fruit.
Isaiah 29:17Is it not yet a very little while, And Lebanon shall be changed to a fruitful field, And the fruitful field be esteemed a forest.
Isaiah 40:3A voice crieth: “Prepare ye in the wilderness the way of Jehovah; Make straight in the desert a highway for our God!
Isaiah 51:3Thus will Jehovah have pity upon Zion; He will have pity upon all her desolations. He will make her wilderness like Eden, Her desert like the garden of Jehovah. Joy and gladness shall be found therein; Thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
Isaiah 55:12For ye shall go out with joy And be led forth with peace; The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, 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 →