Isaiah 35:9 - Exposition

No lion shall be there . No great tyrannical power, like Assyria ( Nahum 2:11 , Nahum 2:12 ) or Babylon, shall arrest the energies of the Church, take it captive, or enslave it. No ravenous beast shall make it his prey . In proportion as the Church is holy ( Isaiah 35:8 ) it shall be free from the molestation of bloody persecutors (see Isaiah 11:9 ). The redeemed —those whom God has purchased for his own ( Exodus 6:6 ; Hosea 13:14 )—shall be free to walk there, untroubled by cruel enemies. There is an under-current of comparison between the blessedness of the last times and the existing troubles of Israel, still threatened by Sennacherib.