Isaiah 35:4

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 35:3-4

Isaiah 35:3-4. Strengthen ye the weak hands Ye prophets and ministers of God, comfort and encourage his people, who are now ready to faint, with hopes of that salvation which, in due time, he will work for them. The prophet mentions hands and knees, because the strength or weakness of any man eminently appears in those parts. Say to them that are of a fearful heart Who, because of their own weakness and the strength of their enemies, are discouraged and cast down: Hebrew, לנמהרי לב , ... 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 35:3-4

Isaiah 35:3-4. Strengthen ye the weak hands— These words seem rightly to be understood as an address of the prophet to the teachers of the church of that time whereof he speaks, exhorting them, from the promise of the certain deliverance and glorious restoration of the oppressed and afflicted church, to comfort the dejected minds of the pious, and raise their drooping spirits. See Hebrews 12:12. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 35:4

4. fearful—"hasty," Margin; that is, with a heart fluttered with agitation. with—the Hebrew is more forcible than the English Version: "God will come, vengeance! even God, a recompense!" The sense is the same. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 35:3-4

Those who are alive at the end of the Tribulation will be a small remnant of believers and some unbelievers. Isaiah called the reader to encourage the exhausted and feeble believers of his or her time. They would need to keep their eyes on God. God would come to take vengeance for them and to deliver them (cf. Deuteronomy 31:6-7; Deuteronomy 31:23; Joshua 1:6-7; Joshua 1:9; Joshua 1:18; Revelation 13:9-10; Revelation 14:12). He would reward them; they will enter Messiah’s millennial kingdom. 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 35:4

(4) Be strong, fear not: . . .—The words are, of course, wide and general enough, but looking to the probable date of this section, we may perhaps connect them with the tone of Hezekiah’s speech in 2 Chronicles 32:7. Both king and prophet had the same words of comfort for the feeble and faint-hearted, and the ground of comfort is that the government of God is essentially a righteous government, punishing the oppressor, and saving the oppressed. (Comp. Joshua 1:6-7.) 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 35:4

35:4 Say to them [that are] of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come [with] {e} vengeance, [even] God [with] a recompence; he will come and save you.(e) To destroy your enemies. read more

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