Isaiah 35

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