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Isaiah 35:7
The parched ground will become a pool, the thirsty land springs of water. In the haunt where jackals once lay, there will be grass and reeds and papyrus.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The prophet addresses Israel regarding a future season of national restoration following wilderness judgment. The declaration follows promises of physical healing and immediately precedes the vision of a purified path for the redeemed.
The words — הַשָּׁרָב (ha.sharav) denotes the sun-baked, arid earth, while תַּנִּים (tanim) refers to jackals, animals that inhabit abandoned, desolate places.
The thread — This reversal of barren land into sustained provision parallels the promise in Isaiah 49:10 that the redeemed will neither hunger nor thirst. The movement from desolation to life undergirds the apostolic commission in Acts 26:18 and anticipates the living water promise in John 4:14.
Why it lands — The text demands acknowledgment that God actively transforms desolation into provision. It requires the reader to pursue the coming Way of Holiness rather than remain settled in abandoned spiritual conditions.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
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.
Cross-references
- Acts 26:18 to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- Isaiah 49:10 They will not hunger or thirst, nor will scorching heat or sun beat down on them. For He who has compassion on them will guide them and lead them beside springs of water.
- John 4:14 But whoever drinks the water I give him will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give him will become in him a fount of water springing up to eternal life.”
- Isaiah 34:13 Her towers will be overgrown with thorns, her fortresses with thistles and briers. She will become a haunt for jackals, an abode for ostriches.
- Isaiah 13:22 Hyenas will howl in her fortresses and jackals in her luxurious palaces. Babylon’s time is at hand, and her days will not be prolonged.
- John 7:38 Whoever believes in Me, as the Scripture has said: ‘Streams of living water will flow from within him.’”
- 1 John 5:19 We know that we are of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.
- Revelation 18:2 And he cried out in a mighty voice: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon the great! She has become a lair for demons and a haunt for every unclean spirit, every unclean bird, and every detestable beast.
- Isaiah 19:6 The canals will stink; the streams of Egypt will trickle and dry up; the reeds and rushes will wither.
- Isaiah 29:17 In a very short time, will not Lebanon become an orchard, and the orchard seem like a forest?