John Trapp on Isaiah 35:1

CHAP. XXXV.

Ver. 1. THe wilderneſſe, and the ſolitary place ſhall be glad for them] The Edomites, and other enemyes have had their part: It hath been ſufficiently ſaid, Woe unto the wicked, it ſhall be ill with him: for the reward of his hands ſhall be given him. And now the Prophet is bidden to ſay to the Righteous (to tell him ſo from the Lord) that it ſhall be well with him; for the reward of his hands ſhall be given him, Iſa. 3.10, 11. The wilderneſſe and the deſart, that is, the poor people of God that have been oppreſſed and ſlighted in this world, ſhall be reſtored into a happy and flouriſhing eſtate: the Church ſhall have her Halcyons under Hezekiah, but eſpecially under Chriſt, She ſhall have it both in temporals and ſpirituals, ver. 2.