1 Be glad, thou thirsty desert: let the wilderness exult, and flower as the lily. 2 And the desert places of Jordan shall blossom and rejoice; the glory of Libanus has been given to it, and the honour of Carmel; and my people shall see the glory of the Lord, and the majesty of God. 3 Be strong, ye relaxed hands and palsied knees. 4 Comfort one another, ye faint-hearted; be strong, fear not; behold, our God renders judgment, and he will render [it]; he will come and save us. 5 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear. 6 Then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall speak plainly; for water has burst forth in the desert, and a channel [of water] in a thirsty land. 7 And the dry land shall become pools, and a fountain of water shall [be poured] into the thirsty land; there shall there be a joy of birds, ready habitations and marshes. 8 There shall be there a pure way, and it shall be called a holy way; and there shall not pass by there any unclean person, neither shall there be there an unclean way; but the dispersed shall walk on it, and they shall not go astray. 9 And there shall be no lion there, neither shall any evil beast go up upon it, nor at all be found there; but the redeemed and gathered on the Lord's behalf, shall walk in it, 10 and shall return, and come to Sion with joy, and everlasting joy [shall be] over their head; for on their head [shall be] praise and exultation, and joy shall take possession of them: sorrow and pain, and groaning have fled away.
Isaiah · Brenton's English Septuagint
Isaiah 35 Brenton's English Septuagint
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Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Ezekiel 36:35; Isaiah 51:3; Isaiah 55:12–13; Isaiah 27:6; Isaiah 52:9–10
- 2 Isaiah 60:13; Romans 10:15; Isaiah 25:9; Habakkuk 2:14; Amos 9:13–15
- 3 Hebrews 12:12; Luke 22:32; Job 4:3–4; Isaiah 57:14–16; Luke 22:43
- 4 James 5:7–9; Isaiah 41:10–14; Zephaniah 3:16–17; Ephesians 6:10; Isaiah 34:8
- 5 Isaiah 42:6–7; Luke 7:20–23; Isaiah 29:18; Matthew 11:3–5; Isaiah 32:3–4
- 6 John 5:8–9; Luke 11:14; John 7:37–39; Matthew 12:22; Isaiah 32:4
- 7 Acts 26:18; Isaiah 49:10; John 4:14; Isaiah 34:13; 1 John 5:19–20
- 8 Matthew 7:13–14; Isaiah 42:16; John 14:6; Revelation 21:27; 1 Peter 1:14–15
- 9 Isaiah 62:12; Ezekiel 34:25; Exodus 15:13; Hosea 2:18; Isaiah 30:6
- 10 Revelation 21:4; Isaiah 30:19; Isaiah 25:8; Isaiah 51:10–11; Isaiah 65:19
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
There are these words: "At His coming the lame shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerer shall be clear speaking: the blind shall see, and the lepers shall be cleansed; and the dead shall rise, and walk about." And that He did those things, you can learn from the Acts of Pontius Pilate.
Those, again, who declare that at His coming "the lame man shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall [speak] plainly, and the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear," and that "the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, shall be strengthened," and that "the dead …
But of our state there, no such word at all is spoken, but all the contrary; that "grief and sorrow and sighing have fled away." And that "men shall come from the east and from the west, and shall recline in the bosoms of Abraham and Isaac and Jacob." And that the region there is a spiritual bride-chamber, and bright …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear: then shall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be distinct.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
… shall leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb shall [speak] plainly, and the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall hear," and that "the hands which hang down, and the feeble knees, shall be strengthened," and that "the dead which are in the grave shall arise," and that He Himself …