Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 35:1

1. THe wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them , and the desert shall rejoyce, and blossom as the rose.

And as the Land of God's Enemies, which was exceeding Fruitful, shall be turned into a desolate Wilderness, as was declared in the foregoing Chapter; so on the contrary, Emanuels Land, or the Seat of God's Church and People, which formerly was deserted, and despised like a Wilderness, and which the rage and malice of their Enemies had brought to desolation, shall flourish exceedingly.

For the Wilderness and solitary Place: or, for these things, which were Prophesied in the foregoing Destruction, concerning the Ruine of the implacable Enemies of God, and his Church. But that Hebrew Letter which is in the end of this Hebrew Verb▪ and is here rendred for them, is by all the ancient Translators, and by divers others neglected in their Translations, as if it were onely added to the Verb Paragogically, as Grammarians speak; and therefore those two words may well be omitted.

Marginal references: Heb. dry place.; Chap. 52. 9. & 55. 12.