Isaiah 35:1-10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 35:1-4

In these verses we have, I. The desert land blooming. In the foregoing chapter we had a populous and fruitful country turned into a horrid wilderness; here we have in lieu of that, a wilderness turned into a good land. When the land of Judah was freed from the Assyrian army, those parts of the country that had been made as a wilderness by the ravages and outrages they committed began to recover themselves, and to look pleasantly again, and to blossom as the rose. When the Gentile nations, that... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 35:5-10

?Then, when your God shall come, even Christ, to set up his kingdom in the world, to which all the prophets bore witness, especially towards the conclusion of their prophecies of the temporal deliverances of the church, and this evangelical prophet especially?then look for great things.? I. Wonders shall be wrought in the kingdoms both of nature and grace, wonders of mercy wrought upon the children of men, sufficient to evince that it is no less than a God that comes to us. 1. Wonders shall be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:1

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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:2

It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing ,.... A redundancy of words, to express the very flourishing estate of the church, and the great joy there shall be on that occasion, as well as because of the destruction of their enemies, and deliverance from them: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it ; a mountain in Judea, famous for its choice and tall cedars, which were the glory of it; signifying hereby, that the church of God, which had been in a desolate... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:3

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 those who saw the glory of the Lord; particularly to the ministers of the Gospel, who have to do with weak and feeble persons, who can scarcely lift up their hands, or stand upon their legs, under a sense of sin, in a view of wrath, and immediate ruin and destruction, ready to sink and faint,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:4

Say to them that are of a fearful heart ,.... Or, "hasty of heart" F23 נמהרי לב "festinis corde", Vatablus; "praecipitantibus corde", Cocceius; "inconsideratis", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator. ; 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... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:5

Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened ,.... Which was literally fulfilled in the first coming of Christ, Matthew 9:27 , John 9:1 and spiritually, both among Jews and Gentiles; especially the latter, under the ministry of the apostles, when those who were blind as to spiritual things had no knowledge of God in Christ; nor of the way of salvation by him; nor of the plague of their own hearts; nor of the work of the Spirit of God upon the soul; nor of the truths of the Gospel; through... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:6

Then shall the lame man leap as an hart ..... As the lame man did healed by Peter, Acts 3:1 there were many instances of such persons cured by Christ when here on earth, Matthew 15:30 and in a spiritual sense this was verified in many who were impotent to that which is good; had neither will nor power to go to Christ for life and salvation, nor to walk by faith in him, nor to walk in his ways; who yet, by the mighty power of the Spirit and grace of God, became able and willing to go to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:7

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water ,.... Such persons who have been like the parched earth, barren and unfruitful, or like the earth scorched with the sun, filled with a sense of divine wrath, and thirsting, like the dry earth, after the grace of God, Christ, and his righteousness, shall be comforted and refreshed, and filled with the grace of God: or such who have been scorched and parched with the heat of persecution, from the antichristian... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:8

And an highway shall be there, and a way ,.... Not two ways, but one; the way shall be a highway, a way cast up, raised, and "elevated" F25 מסלול "semita strata", Montanus; "vel exaltata lapidibus", Vatablus. ; this is to be understood principally of Christ, the only way of life and salvation; and of the lesser paths of duty and ordinances: and the meaning is, that in those desert places, where Christ and his Gospel had not been preached, at least for many ages, here he should be... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 35:1-4

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 35:5-10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:7

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 35:8

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