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Isaiah 35:7

Isaiah 35:7
And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of dragons, where each lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And the parched ground shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water,.... Such persons who have been like the parched earth, barren and unfruitful, or like the earth scorched with the…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And the parched ground shall become a pool - The idea is the same here as in the previous verse, that under the Messiah there would be blessings as great as if the parched ground’ should become a lake…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 35:5-10

"Then, when your God shall come, even Christ, to set up his kingdom in the world, to which all the prophets bore witness, especially towards the conclusion of their prophecies of the temporal…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the parched ground The Hebr. word (shârâb, only again in Isa 49:10) is generally thought to be identical with Serâb, the Arabic name for the mirage (so R.V. marg.). Allusions to this remarkable…