Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 35:3
Strengthen — Ye ministers of God, comfort and encourage God's people, who are now ready to faint.
Strengthen — Ye ministers of God, comfort and encourage God's people, who are now ready to faint.
STRENGTHEN YE - That is, you who are the religious teachers and guides of the people. This is an address made by the prophet in view of what he had said and was about to say of the proraised blessings...
CHAPTER 35 Restoration Glory and the Kingdom 1. _Creation blest and the glory of the Lord revealed (Isaiah 35:1)_ 2. _The spiritual and material blessings of the kingdom (Isaiah 35:3)_ 3. The return...
ISAIAH 35. The wilderness shall become fruitful as the most fertile districts of Palestine. Let the timid take courage, for Divine vengeance on the enemy is at hand. The blind and deaf, the lame and d...
STRENGTHEN, &C. Quoted in Hebrews 12:11; Hebrews 12:12....
An exhortation to the despondent. For the figures of Isaiah 35:3 see Job 4:3-4....
DISCOURSE: 913 ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WEAK Isaiah 35:3. _Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will...
STRENGTHEN YE THE WEAK HANDS— These words seem rightly to be understood as an address of the prophet to the teachers of the church of that time whereof he speaks, exhorting them, from the promise of t...
E. FREEDOM WILL FLOURISH, CHAPTER 35 1. STRENGTHENED TEXT: Isaiah 35:1-7 1 The wilderness and the dry land shall be glad; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. 2 It shall blossom...
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. STRENGTHEN YE THE WEAK HANDS ... CONFIRM THE FEEBLE KNEES. The Hebrew for "strengthen," chazquw (H2388), refers to the strength residing...
1. While Edom becomes a desert, for God's people, on the other hand, the desert places burst into bloom, the fairest parts of Palestine sharing their fertile beauty with the waste places (Isaiah 35:2)...
ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 35 All through CHAPTER S 28 TO 33, there was one main point: It was foolish to trust o...
STRENGTHEN YE THE WEAK HANDS... — Here the words are obviously, as they are quoted in Hebrews 12:12, figurative and not literal, and so far suggest a like interpretation for what follows....
חַזְּק֖וּ יָדַ֣יִם רָפֹ֑ות וּ בִרְכַּ֥יִם כֹּשְׁלֹ֖ות...
THE REJOICING OF THE REDEEMED Isaiah 35:1-10 God's judgments change Carmel and Sharon into a waste; but His blessing makes the wilderness and parched land as Carmel and Sharon. Where the smile of God...
The message of this chapter stands in close relation to the message of the preceding one, and yet in almost startling contrast to it. That was a picture of desolation. This is one of restoration. As i...
(d) Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. (d) He wills all to encourage one another, and especially the ministers to exhort and strengthen the weak, that they may patiently abid...
_Knees. Ye prophets, comfort the people with these promises. (Calmet) --- The apostles taught the Gentiles to do good. (Menochius)_...
How delightfully the prophet preacheth consolation to the Old Testament saints, in the prospect of their coming Saviour! This was the one source of holy joy, to which the holy men of old were uniforml...
3._Strengthen ye the weak hands. _We might explain this passage generally, as if he had said, “Let those who have feeble hands strengthen them, let; them whose knees tremble and totter compose and inv...
Chapter 35 gives a picture of the blessing that succeeds the judgment, the blessing even of the wilderness, which depends on that of Israel. The redeemed of Jehovah shall go up with joy in full securi...
STRENGTHEN YE THE WEAK HANDS,.... These are the words of the prophet, as the Targum, "the prophet said, strengthen the weak hands;'' or rather of God, by the prophet, to the converted Gentiles, to t...
_Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees._ Ver. 3. _Strengthen ye the weak hands,_] _q.d., _ Cheer up, my hearts; be of good courage, and God shall strengthen your hearts, all ye t...
_Strengthen ye the weak hands_ Ye prophets and ministers of God, comfort and encourage his people, who are now ready to faint, with hopes of that salvation which, in due time, he will work for them. T...
Strengthen ye the weak hands, the reference being to the firm grasp with which the believers should hold to the hope of their calling, AND CONFIRM THE FEEBLE KNEES, so that they will stand upright, ke...
THE JOYFUL STATE OF CHRIST'S KINGDOM. We have, in this chapter, a beautiful and majestic picture of the flourishing condition of Christ's kingdom, of the glorious future awaiting those who belong to...
1-4 Judea was prosperous in the days of Hezekiah, but the kingdom of Christ is the great subject intended. Converting grace makes the soul that was a wilderness, to rejoice with joy and singing, and...
Ye prophets and ministers of God, comfort and encourage God's people, who are now ready to faint, with hopes and assurance of that salvation which, in due time, I will work for them. He mentions HANDS...
Isaiah 35:3 Strengthen H2388 (H8761) weak H7504 hands H3027 firm H553 (H8761) feeble H3782 (H8802) knees...
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TO PREPARE THEMSELVES FOR DELIVERANCE (ISAIAH 35:3). But those who would participate in the blessing must also prepare themselves, and Isaiah calls on the people to become strong in...
Isaiah 35:1. _The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them;_ They shall be so glad that they shall inspire gladness where all was desolation, and brooding, melancholy batswing, and dr...
CONTENTS: The coming Kingdom blessing and regathering of Israel. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The precious promises of peace in the Gospel will shortly culminate in the endless joys and rest of the c...
Isaiah 35:1. _The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad._ After giving the people bright hopes of recovery from the devastations of invading armies, the prophet dwells at large on the glory...
_The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them_ THE BLESSINGS OF THE GOSPEL The thirty-fourth and the thirty-fifth Chapter s of Isaiah are by the best scholars supposed to constitute...
_Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees._ WEAK HANDS AND FEEBLE KNEES I. I shall attempt to show THE IMPORTANCE OF HANDS AND KNEES IN GOING TO HEAVEN. The hands and knees are thos...
ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 35:3 BEHOLD, YOUR GOD WILL COME. Perseverance is possible because of God’s commitment to his people (“your God”) and the trustworthiness of his promise (“will come”)....
TRANSFORMATION Isaiah 35:1; Isaiah 35:7. _The wilderness and the solitary place, &c._ Chapter s 34, 35, form one prediction, first announcing the doom of Edom, and then taking us into a new sphere wh...
EXPOSITION ISAIAH 35:1 THE GLORY OF THE LAST TIMES. On the punishment of God's enemies will follow the peace, prosperity, and glory of his Church. Previously, the Church is in affliction, waste, and...
Now chapter 35 is out of the darkness into the light. Out of the tribulation into the kingdom. The glorious day of the Lord to which we look forward to. In chapter 35, oh, what a glorious chapter as i...
Acts 18:23; Hebrews 12:12; Isaiah 40:1; Isaiah 40:2; Isaiah 52:1;...