The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.
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Gill's Exposition
The wilderness, and the solitary place, shall be glad for them,.... Either for the wild beasts, satyrs, owls, and vultures, that shall inhabit Edom or Rome, and because it shall be an habitation for…
Barnes' Notes
The wilderness and the solitary place - This is evidently figurative language, such as is often employed by the prophets. The word rendered ‘solitary place’ (ציה tsı̂yâh), denotes properly a dry…
In these verses we have,
I. The desert land blooming. In the foregoing chapter we had a populous and fruitful country turned into a horrid wilderness; here we have in lieu of that, a wilderness turned…
Joy in the desert, now transformed into a fertile and luxuriant plain. Cf. ch. Isa 41:18 f.
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