Isaiah 35:1

Some day, it will be as though the desert and other very dry areas are glad [DOU]; the desert will rejoice and flowers will blossom. Like crocuses/daffodils,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

In Context

2the desert will produce flowers abundantly; it will be as though everything is rejoicing and singing! The deserts will become as beautiful as [SIM] the trees in Lebanon, as fertile [SIM] as the plains of the Sharon and Carmel areas. There people will see the glory of Yahweh; they will see that he is magnificent.

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Cross References

Psalms 97:8The people [MTY] of Jerusalem hear about Yahweh and are glad/happy, and people in the other [MTY] cities in Judah also rejoice, because Yahweh judges and punishes wicked people.

Isaiah 27:6There will be a time when the ◄descendants of Jacob/Israeli people► will prosper like a plant that has good roots; they will be like [MET] trees that bud and blossom and bear a lot of fruit; what they do will bless all the people in the world.

Isaiah 29:17Soon the forests in Lebanon will become fertile fields, and abundant crops will grow in those fields, and that will happen very soon.

Isaiah 40:3I hear someone who is shouting, “Prepare in the desert a way for Yahweh to come to you; make a smooth road for our God (OR, Prepare yourselves to receive Yahweh when he comes, like people make a straight road for an important official [MET]).

Isaiah 51:3Some day I, Yahweh, will encourage his descendants again, and I will comfort all the people who live in the ruins of Jerusalem. The desert in that area will become like Eden, like the garden that I, Yahweh, made/planted. All the people there will be joyful and happy; they will thank me and sing.

Isaiah 55:12You will leave Babylon joyfully, you will have peace as I lead you out. It will be as though the hills and mountains will sing joyfully, and the trees in the fields 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 →

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