1The joyful and flourishing state of Christ's kingdom. 3The weak are encouraged with a view of the blessings of the gospel.
1THE awilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert bshall rejoice, and cblossom as the rose.
a ch. 32.13-16. Re. 12.14. Ac. 7.37,38. b ch. 52.9; 55.12,13. Ps. 48.11. De. 32.43. c ch. 4.2; 30.23; 32.15-17; 41.18,19; 43.19,20; 55.13; 29.17; 51.3; 65.10; 11.10; 33.9; 60-62; 65; 66. Ro. 11.25; 15.10-19.
2It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: dthe glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the LORD, and the excellency of our God.
d Ho. 14.5,6. Ps. 1.3; 23.2; 80.11; 92.12; 98.1-3; 72.19; 102.16,21. ch. 29.17; 33.9; 60.1,13; 11.16. Re. 21.23. 2Co. 3.18; 4.6. Je. 17.8. Eze. 34.13,14. Mi. 5.3.
3ΒΆeStrengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
e He. 12.12,13. Job 4.3,4. Re. 3.2. Je. 27.14; 31.25. 1Co. 15.58; 16.3. Mat. 9.2; 14.27.
4Say to them that are of a 1fearful heart, fBe strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
1Heb. hasty.
f Jos. 1.6,7,9. ch. 44.2; 30.27; 40.10; 25.9; 63.4; 66.15. Hab. 2.3. He. 10.37. Ho. 1.7. Mat. 1.21. Lu. 21.28.
5Then the geyes of the blind shall be opened, and hthe ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
g ch. 29.18,24; 32.3; 42.7,16,18. Mat. 9.27-30; 11.5; 12.22; 20.30-34; 21.14. Jn. 9.6,7. Ac. 26.18. Ep. 1.17,18. 2Co. 4.6. ch. 60.2,3,20. Eze. 47.1-10. Zec. 14.7-9. Re. 21.23,24. ch. 2.2-5; 11.9; 30.26; 54.12,13. Ac. 2.46. De. 32.42. Ps. 146.8. h Mat. 11.5. Mar. 7.32-35.
6Then shall the ilame man leap as an *hart, and the jtongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall kwaters break out, and streams in the desert.
*hart-deer.
i Mat. 11.5; 15.30; 21.14. Jn. 5.3,8,9. Ac. 3.2-8; 8.7; 14.8-10. j Mat. 9.32,33; 12.22; 15.30. Lu. 1.46,64; 2.20; 24.50. Ac. 3.8,9. Ro. 15.11. Col. 3.16. Ep. 5.19. De. 32.42. Ro. 15.10-12,18. k ch. 41.18; 43.19,20; 48.21; 49.10,11; 58.11. Eze. 47.1-11. Joel 3.18. Re. 22.1,17. Zec. 13.1; 14.8. Jn. 7.37-39; 4.14.
7And lthe parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of *dragons, where each lay, shall be 2grass with reeds and rushes.
*dragons-serpents.
2Or, a court for reeds.
l Ps. 72.9-17. Ac. 26.18. 1Co. 6.9-11. Tit. 3.3-7. ch. 34.13. De. 8.15.
8And man highway shall be there, and a way, and it shall be called The way of holiness; nthe unclean shall not pass over it; 3but it shall be for those: the owayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein.
3Or, for he shall be with them. v.5,6,9,10.
m ch. 40.3; 42.16; 49.11,12. Jn. 14.6; 10.9. Ep. 2.18. 1Co. 1.30. Col. 2.6. Ac. 24.14. Ep. 4.4-6. 1Co. 3.11. He. 10.20. Ga. 1.7-9. n Re. 21.27. Joel 3.17. ch. 52.1; 60.21. Zec. 14.20. Eze. 43.12; 44.9. 1Co. 6.11. Tit. 3.5; 2.11,12. 2Co. 7.1. o Ps. 25.8,9; 119.130. Pr. 9.4,5. 1Co. 1.27. 1Jn. 2.20,27. Je. 32.39,40. Jude 1.
9pNo lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there :
p Eze. 34.25. ch. 11.6-9; 65.25. Ps. 10.9. Pr. 28.15. 1Pe. 5.8. Re. 20.1,2.
10And the qransomed of the LORD shall return, and rcome to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
q ch. 51.11; 43.10,14; 62.12; 60.14. Ep. 1.7; 2.10; 5.2. r Ps. 84.7; 45.14,15. Je. 50.4; 31.6,12. ch. 24.14-16; 25; 26; 60; 61; 65.19. Ac. 2.41-47. Jn. 16.22. He. 12.22. Re. 5.9; 7.9-17; 14.1-4; 15.3,4; 18.20; 19.1-7; 21.4. Pr. 10.6. Ro. 14.17. 1Pe. 1.8. Jn. 16.22; 4.14. Jude 24.