Isaiah · 10 verses
Isaiah 35
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A highway appears after the desert has become almost absurdly hospitable, and its curious exclusions are the unclean, the vicious beast, and—most mysteriously—the fool.
The desert puts on a spectaclevv. 1–7
Wilderness, dry land, and desert are summoned into gladness, blooming with the glory of Lebanon and the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. Then come instructions for limp hands, feeble knees, and anxious hearts, followed by opened eyes, unstopped ears, leaping legs, and a tongue shouting for joy. Even the jackals’ haunt is rearranged: water arrives, and grass, reeds, and papyrus take possession.
A road with peculiar mannersvv. 8–9
Through this newly watered world runs the Way of Holiness. The unclean do not travel it, the redeemed do, and fools do not stray onto it; the text offers no mechanism for this excellent bit of road discipline. Lions and vicious beasts are absent as well, leaving the highway with a remarkably selective traffic problem.
The return to Zionv. 10
At the end, the redeemed of the LORD return and enter Zion singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy overtake them, while sorrow and sighing flee; the verse gives those departing troubles a surprisingly brisk pair of heels.
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Isa 35:1The wilderness and the dry land will be glad; the desert will rejoice and blossom like a rose.
Isa 35:2It will bloom profusely and rejoice with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon will be given to it, the splendor of Carmel and Sharon. They will see the glory of the LORD, the splendor of our God.
Isa 35:3Strengthen the limp hands and steady the feeble knees!
Isa 35:4Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
Isa 35:5Then the eyes of the blind will be opened and the ears of the deaf unstopped.
Isa 35:6Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
Isa 35:7The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
Isa 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
Isa 35:9No lion will be there, and no vicious beast will go up on it. Such will not be found there, but the redeemed will walk upon it.
Isa 35:10So the redeemed of the LORD will return and enter Zion with singing, crowned with everlasting joy. Gladness and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee.
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 263 passages were voted onto 10 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 5Isaiah 42:6–7“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
- 5Luke 7:20–23When the men came to Jesus, they said, “John the Baptist sent us to ask, ‘Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?’”
- 5Isaiah 29:18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
- 5Matthew 11:3–5to ask Him, “Are You the One who was to come, or should we look for someone else?”
- 5Psalms 146:8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
- 8Matthew 7:13–14Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.
- 8Isaiah 42:16I will lead the blind by a way they did not know; I will guide them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light before them and rough places into level ground. These things I will do for them, and I will not forsake them.
- 5Ephesians 1:17–18that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in your knowledge of Him.
- 5Matthew 20:30–34And there were two blind men sitting beside the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord, Son of David, have mercy on us!”
- 8John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
- 5John 9:1–7Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,
- 4James 5:7–9Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.
- 5Mark 7:32–37Some people brought to Him a man who was deaf and hardly able to speak, and they begged Jesus to place His hand on him.
- 5Proverbs 20:12Ears that hear and eyes that see—the LORD has made them both.
- 81 Peter 1:14–15As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
- 8Revelation 21:27But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.
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