Ésaïe 35:8, Ésaïe 35:9 BDS

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 35:8

Isaiah 35:8. And a highway shall be there, and a way The highway and the way are not to be taken for two different ways, but for one and the same way, even a cast-way, which is both raised ground, as the former Hebrew word מסלול signifies, and a way for persons to travel in, as the latter word here used means, both signifying a convenient, prepared, plain, and common road or path for travellers; namely, the way of truth and duty marked out by the gospel, which is the rule both of our... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:1-10

A paradise for God’s people (35:1-10)In contrast to the terrifying end that awaits the wicked, the final state that God has prepared for the righteous is one of peace, joy and beauty. As judgment was pictured in the devastation of the land of Edom, so salvation is pictured in the restoration of the land of Israel. The picture is that of a desert that turns into a beautiful garden or a mighty forest. The Lord God dwells there and strengthens his people (35:1-4).All the effects of sin are now... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 35:8

highway. See note on Isaiah 7:3 . Occurs only here. The way, &c. = the holy road. but, &c. : i.e. yet for those very persons it will exist. err therein = go astray. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Isaiah 35:8

THE HIGHWAY FOR THE REDEEMED"And a highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; and the unclean shall not pass over it; but it shall be for the redeemed: the wayfaring men, yea fools, shall not err therein. No lion shall be there, nor shall any ravenous beast go up thereon; they shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there: and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads:... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 35:8

Isaiah 35:8. And an highway, &c.— According to Vitringa the meaning of this verse is, that the rule of faith and morals, according to which the Israel of God must walk, shall be so clearly and fully shewn at this time from the word of God, that men of the most simple and uncultivated understandings, lovers of the truth, and desirous of the communion of the church, shall not be able to stray from it; and he thinks the meaning of the clause, למו והוא vehu lamo, But it shall be for those, is,... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 35:8

8. highway—such a causeway (raised way, from a Hebrew root, "to cast up") as was used for the march of armies; valleys being filled up, hills and other obstructions removed ( :-; compare Isaiah 40:3; Isaiah 40:4). way of holiness—Hebraism for "the holy way." HORSLEY translates, "the way of the Holy One;" but the words that follow, and Isaiah 35:10, show it is the way leading the redeemed back to Jerusalem, both the literal and the heavenly (Isaiah 52:1; Joel 3:17; Revelation 21:27); still... read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 35:8

A highway will be there leading through the then-lush landscape to Zion (Isaiah 35:10). It will be used by the ransomed of the Lord (Isaiah 35:10) to travel to Messiah’s capital. It will be a highway marked by holiness because only redeemed people will travel on it. Fools, the morally perverse, will not wander onto it because they are unholy. Is this a literal road? It may be, but it certainly pictures God’s people at that time streaming to Zion through a renovated earth. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 35:1-10

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).7. Parched ground] RM ’mirage’: this which so often deceives travellers in the desert will become a real lake.Dragons] RV ’jackals.’8. An highway] by which the exiles may return through the desert. 9. Cp. Isaiah 51:11. read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 35:8

(8) An highway shall be there.—The raised causeway, as distinct from the common paths. (See Judges 5:6.) We are still in the region of parables, but the thought has a special interest as a transition, at the close of the first volume of Isaiah’s writings, to the opening of the second. The use of the road has been referred, by some interpreters, to the return of the exiles from Babylon. Rather is it the road by which the pilgrims of all nations shall journey to the mountain of the Lord’s house... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Isaiah 35:1-10

The Mirage and the Pool Isaiah 35:7 'The mirage shall become a pool.' The illusory shall become the substantial. The life of disappointments shall become a life of satisfaction. I. What some men have experienced in the sandy desert others have suffered in the common life. Humanity is mocked by a mirage more inviting and enticing than the semblance of the desert. There is the illusory in life, the mirage which allures with its promise of satisfying pools, and then mocks us with its leagues of... read more