Isaiah 41:19

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:

I will plant in the wilderness the cedar - (Isaiah 32:15; Isaiah 55:13.)

The shittah - rather, the acacia, or Egyptian thorn, from which the gum-Arabic is obtained (Lowth). The boards and pillars of the tabernacle were made of it, also the ark, the staves, the table of showbread etc. It grows to the size of a mulberry tree. The Hebrew, shitah (H7848), is derived from the Egyptian term sant, or sunt, the "n" being omitted. The tangled thickets into which the stem expands account for the plural masculine form, shitiym, in which also the word occurs. The acacia seyal is the tree especially referred to. It is found in late quantities on the mountains of Sinai overhanging the Red Sea.

Oil tree - the olive.

Fir tree - Hebrew, berosh; including not only the pinus silvestris, or Scotch fir, and latch, but also the cypress: grateful by its shade.

Pine. Gesenius translates, 'the holm.'

Box tree (teasshur) - not the shrub used for bordering flower-beds, but (Gesenius) a kind of cedar, remarkable for the smallness of its cones and the upward direction of its branches. It is called scherbin. The root is ashar, to be tall and erect.