Isaiah 35:4

Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you. A FEARFUL HEART - margin, hasty; i:e., with a heart fluttered with agitation. (WITH) VENGEANCE. The Hebrew is more forcible than the English version. GOD WILL COME ... VENGEANCE, (EVEN) GOD ... A RECOMPENCE. The sense is the same....

4._Say to them that are faint hearted. _That strength of which he spoke is breathed into our hearts by God through his word, as “by faith alone we stand” (2 Corinthians 1:24) and live; and therefore he adds the promise of grace yet to come. _Behold, your God will come. _First, it ought to be observed that God does not wish that his grace should remain concealed and unknown, but rather that it should be proclaimed and imparted, that they who totter and tremble may compose and invigorate their hearts. And this is one method by which our hearts may be cheered amidst heavy distresses; for if we are not supported by the word of the Lord, we must faint and despair. This, then, is the office assigned to the teachers of the word, to raise up them that are fallen down, (23) to strengthen the feeble, to upheld the tottering. We ought also 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 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....

SAY TO THEM - This is still an address to the ministers of religion, to make use of all the consolations which these truths and predictions furnish to confirm and strengthen the people of God. OF A FEARFUL HEART - Of a timid, pusillanimous heart; those who tremble before their enemies. The Hebrew is, as in the Margin, ‘Of a hasty heart;’ that is, of those who are disposed to flee before their enemies (see the note at Isaiah 30:16). BEHOLD, YOUR GOD WILL COME WITH VENGEANCE - That is, in the manner described in the previous chapter; and, generally, he will take vengeance on all the enemies of his people, and they shall be punished. The language in this chapter is, in part, derived from the captivity at Babylon...

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

SAY TO THEM [THAT ARE] OF A FEARFUL HEART,.... Or, "hasty of heart" w; are at once for flying from the enemy; "hasty" in drawing black conclusions upon themselves and their state; "inconsiderate" of the promises made unto them; ready to doubt of, and call in question, the performance of the above things, respecting the fruitful and flourishing estate of the church: wherefore it must be said to them, BE STRONG, FEAR NOT; be strong in faith, fear not the enemy, nor doubt of the fulfilment of divine promises, relating to their ruin and your safety: BEHOLD, YOUR GOD WILL COME [WITH] VENGEANCE; Christ, who is God in our nature, God manifest in the flesh, and who came by the assumption of human nature; and when he first came, he came with vengeance, and took vengeance on Satan and his works; on him, and his principalities, and powers, whom he spoiled and destroyed, as well as made an end of...

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

An exhortation to the despondent. For the figures of Isaiah 35:3 see Job 4:3-4....