Isaiah 35:10 - Exposition

The ransomed of the Lord shall return . The blessedness of the last times would be incomplete to Jewish ideas without this crowning feature. There had already been a great dispersion of the faithful ( Isaiah 1:7-9 ); there was to be a still greater one ( Isaiah 11:11 ); Israel could not be content or happy until her "outcasts" were recalled, "the dispersed of Judah gathered together from the four corners of the earth" ( Isaiah 11:12 ). The return here prophesied is again announced, in almost the same words, in Isaiah 51:11 . With songs (see the comment on Isaiah 51:2 ). Everlasting joy upon their heads . Anointed, as it were, with "the oil of gladness" ( Psalms 45:7 ) forever and ever. Sorrow and sighing shall rise away (comp. Isaiah 25:8 ; Revelation 7:17 ; Revelation 21:4 ).