Isaiah 35 (YLT)

Chapter Text

35:1 They joy from the wilderness and dry place, And rejoice doth the desert, and flourish as the rose,

35:2 Flourishing it doth flourish, and rejoice, Yea, <FI>with<Fi> joy and singing, The honour of Lebanon hath been given to it, The beauty of Carmel and Sharon, They--they see the honour of Jehovah, The majesty of our God.

35:3 Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

35:4 Say to the hastened of heart, `Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

35:5 Then opened are eyes of the blind, And ears of the deaf are unstopped,

35:6 Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.

35:7 And the mirage hath become a pond, And the thirsty land fountains of waters, In the habitation of dragons, Its place of couching down, a court for reed and rush.

35:8 And a highway hath been there, and a way, And the `way of holiness' is called to it, Not pass over it doth the unclean, And He Himself <FI>is<Fi> by them, Whoso is going in the way--even fools err not.

35:9 No lion is there, yea, a destructive beast Ascendeth it not, it is not found there, And walked have the redeemed,

35:10 And the ransomed of Jehovah return, And have entered Zion with singing. And joy age-during on their head, Joy and gladness they attain, And fled away have sorrow and sighing!

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "called", "wilderness", "place", "rejoice", "doth", "desert", "flourish", and "rose". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "called" and "wilderness", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The local YLT text gives this verse as the immediate unit, so "called" and "wilderness" carries the first interpretive weight. In The Suffering Servant Bears Iniquity, the local focus is the servant of the LORD, atonement, and judgment and restoration.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "called" and "wilderness" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.