Isaiah 35:2 KJV,ASV

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 35:2

Isaiah 35:2. It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice Great shall be the prosperity and felicity of God’s church in these gospel days. Spiritual blessings are often set forth under the emblems of fruitfulness and plenty, as the reader may see, Isaiah 4:2; Isaiah 30:23; Isaiah 32:15, and elsewhere. The glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, &c. The prophet goes on to express the great change which should be made in the Gentile world by the gospel. For Lebanon was a mountain famous... 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

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 35:1-2

Isaiah 35:1-2. The wilderness, &c.— There can be no doubt of the connection of this chapter with that preceding. Comp. Isa 35:4 with Isa 35:8 in that chapter. The most joyful, prosperous, and glorious things are here predicted, concerning the state of the church after the judgment upon Edom, in such figurative terms as are familiar with our prophet, and are easily understood. We have had occasion heretofore to observe, that by the wilderness is generally meant the Gentile church; the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 35:2

2. glory of Lebanon—its ornament, namely, its cedars ( :-). excellency of Carmel—namely, its beauty. Sharon—famed for its fertility. see . . . glory of the Lord . . . excellency— (Isaiah 40:5; Isaiah 40:9). While the wilderness which had neither "glory" nor "excellency" shall have both "given to it," the Lord shall have all the "glory" and "excellency" ascribed to Him, not to the transformed wilderness (Isaiah 40:9- :). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 35:1-2

References to the wilderness and desert tie this chapter to the preceding one. The wilderness that God so thoroughly judged, personified here, will eventually rejoice because it will blossom profusely. The beauty and glory that formerly marked Lebanon and Carmel, before the devastation of chapter 34, will mark these places again, but more so. Their transformation, at God’s hand, will enable them to appreciate the inherent value and majestic dignity of Israel’s sovereign Lord (cf. Romans... 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 35:2

(2) The glory of Lebanon . . .—The three types of cultivated beauty are contrasted with the former three of desolation. See Note on Isaiah 33:9. And over this fair land of transcendent beauty, there will shine not the common light of day, but the glory of Jehovah. (Comp. Isaiah 30:26; Revelation 21:23.) 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

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 35:1-10

CHAPTER 35 Restoration Glory and the Kingdom 1. Creation blest and the glory of the Lord revealed (Isaiah 35:1-2 ) 2. The spiritual and material blessings of the kingdom (Isaiah 35:3-9 ) 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... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 35:2

35:2 It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given to it, the excellence of {b} Carmel and Sharon, they shall {c} see the glory of the LORD, [and] the excellence of our God.(b) The Church which was before compared to a barren wilderness will by Christ be made most plenteous and beautiful.(c) He shows that the presence of God is the reason that the Church brings forth fruit and flourishes. read more