Isaiah 35:1

The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose. THE SOLITARY PLACE - literally, a dry place, tsiyaah (H6723), without springs of water. A moral wilderness is meant. FOR THEM - namely, on account of the punishment inflicted according to the preceding prophecy on the enemy: probably the blessings set forth in this chapter are included in the causes for joy, Isaiah 55:12. THE ROSE (Hebrew, chªbatsaalet (H2261)) - rather, the meadow-saffron, an autumnal flower with bulbous roots: so the Syriac (chamizalyotow: evidently the same word slightly changed) translation. The Colchicum autum...

1._The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad. _Here the Prophet describes a wonderful change; for having in the former chapter described the destruction of Idumaea, and having said that it would be changed into a wilderness, he now promises, on the other hand, fertility to the wilderness, so that barren and waste lands shall become highly productive. This is God’s own work; for, as he blesses the whole earth, so he waters some parts of it more lightly, and other parts more bountifully, by his blessing, and afterwards withdraws and removes it altogether on account of the ingratitude of men. This passage is explained in various ways. I pass by the dreams of the Jews, who apply all passages of this kind to the temporal reign of the Messiah, which they have contrived by their own imagination. Some explain it as referring to Judea, and others to the calling of the Gentiles. But let...

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 to blossom abundantly. The feeble and faint-hearted are encouraged. This is the design of the gospel. Fear is weakening; the more we strive against it, the stronger we are, both for doing and suffering; and he that says to us, Be strong, has laid help for us upon One who is mighty. Assurance is given of the approach of Messiah, to take vengeance on the powers of darkness, to recompense with abundant comforts those that mourn in Zion; He will come and save. He will come again at the end of time, to punish those who have troubled his people; and to give those who were troubled such rest as will be a full reward for all their troubles....

CHAPTER XXXV _Flourishing state of the Church of God consequent to the awful_ _judgments predicted in the preceding chapter. The images_ _employed in the description are so very consolatory and sublime_ _as to oblige us to extend their fulfilment to that period of_ _the Gospel dispensation when Messiah shall take unto himself_ _his great power and reign. The_ fifth _and_ sixth _verses were_ literally _accomplished by our Saviour and his apostles: but_ _that the miracles wrought in the first century were not the_ only import of the language used by the proph

THE WILDERNESS AND THE SOLITARY PLACE - This is evidently figurative language, such as is often employed by the prophets. The word rendered ‘solitary place’ (ציה _tsı̂yâh_), denotes properly a dry place, a place without springs and streams of water; and as such places produce no verdure, and nothing to sustain life, the word comes to mean a desert. Such expressions are often used in the Scriptures to express moral or spiritual desolation; and in this sense evidently the phrase is used here. It does not refer to the desolations of Judea, but to all places that might be properly called a moral wilderness, or a spiritual desert; and thus aptly expresses the condition of the world that was to be benefited by the blessings foretold in this chapter. The parallel expressions in Isaiah 41:17;...

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 desolate. Its enemies once removed, destroyed, swept out of the way, it rises instantly in all its beauty to a condition which words are poor to paint. The highest resources of the poetic art are called in to give some idea of the glory and happiness of the final Church of the redeemed. ISAIAH 35:1 THE WILDERNESS AND THE SOLITARY PLACE SHALL BE GLAD FOR THEM; rather, the _wilderness_, _and the dry place_, shall be

THE WILDERNESS, AND THE SOLITARY PLACE, SHALL BE GLAD FOR THEM,.... Either for the wild beasts, satyrs, owls, and vultures, that shall inhabit Edom or Rome, and because it shall be an habitation for them: or they shall be glad for them, the Edomites, and for the destruction of them; that is, as the Targum paraphrases it, "they that dwell in the wilderness, in the dry land, shall rejoice;'' the church, in the wilderness, being obliged to fly there from the persecution of antichrist, and thereby become desolate as a wilderness; and so called, in allusion to the Israelites in the wilderness, Acts 7:38 shall now rejoice at the ruin of Rome, and the antichristian states; by which means it shall come into a more flourishing condition; see Revelation 12:14: and the desert

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 dragon's howl. «The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them.» Isaiah 35:1. _And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose._ God's people are a happy-making people. They are a blessing in themselves, and they shall be a blessing to others, till all shall say, «These are the seed that the Lord hath blessed.» «The desert shall rejoice and blossom as the rose.» Isaiah 35:2. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebano

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 of the ransomed of the Lord (Isaiah 35:10)_ What follows the great judgments of the day of Jehovah, when our Lord Jesus Christ is revealed from heaven in flaming fire, is now brought forward in this final chapter of the first great part of Isaiah's vision. The unscriptural view, that the coming of the Lord in judgment means the complete end of the world, is once more answered. After judgment ruin comes restoration glory. What that glory is we find in this chapter. Read it carefully and also the “Studie

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 dumb, will be healed. The thirsty desert shall abound with streams and springs. In the haunts of wild creatures will be grass for cattle. There shall be a holy way for pilgrims, on which the godless will not be permitted to travel; it will be unmolested by wild beasts, so that the pilgrims may travel on it in safety as they go up to Zion. ISAIAH 35:1. ROSE: better autumn croons (_mg._) or narcissus. Isaiah 35:3. Carmel: pp. 28- 30. SHARON: p. 28. Isaiah 35:5. The descriptions are lit