“ Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. ”
Strengthen ye - That is, you who are the religious teachers and guides of the people. This is an address made by the prophet in view of what he had said and was about to say of the proraised bles...
(d) Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. (d) He wills all to encourage one another, and especially the ministers to exhort and strengthen the weak, that they may patiently abi...
Isaiah 35. The wilderness shall become fruitful as the most fertile districts of Palestine. Let the timid take courage, for Divine vengeance on the enemy is at hand. The blind and deaf, the lame an...
Strengthen, &c. Quoted in Hebrews 12:11 ; Hebrews 12:12 .
3. Strengthen ye the weak hands. We might explain this passage generally, as if he had said, “Let those who have feeble hands strengthen them, let; them whose knees tremble and totter compos...
DISCOURSE: 913 ENCOURAGEMENT TO THE WEAK Isaiah 35:3-4 . Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your Go...
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees.
Strengthen ye the weak hands— These words seem rightly to be understood as an address of the prophet to the teachers of the church of that time whereof he speaks, exhorting them, from the promise o...
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Strengthen ye the weak hands ... confirm the feeble knees. The Hebrew for "strengthen," chazquw ( H2388 ), refers to the stre...
1. While Edom becomes a desert, for God's people, on the other hand, the desert places burst into bloom, the fairest parts of Palestine sharing their fertile beauty with the waste places ( Isaiah 3...
Strengthen ye the weak hands... — Here the words are obviously, as they are quoted in Hebrews 12:12 , figurative and not literal, and so far suggest a like interpretation for what follows.
the Rejoicing of the Redeemed Isaiah 35:1-10 God's judgments change Carmel and Sharon into a waste; but His blessing makes the wilderness and parched land as Carmel and Sharon. Where the smile...
The message of this chapter stands in close relation to the message of the preceding one, and yet in almost startling contrast to it. That was a picture of desolation. This is one of restoration. As...
How delightfully the prophet preacheth consolation to the Old Testament saints, in the prospect of their coming Saviour! This was the one source of holy joy, to which the holy men of old were uniform...
Strengthen ye the weak hands ,.... These are the words of the prophet, as the Targum, "the prophet said, strengthen the weak hands;'' or rather of God, by the prophet, to the converted Gentiles, t...
Strengthen ye the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees. Ver. 3. Strengthen ye the weak hands, ] q.d., Cheer up, my hearts; be of good courage, and God shall strengthen your hearts, all ye...
Strengthen ye the weak hands Ye prophets and ministers of God, comfort and encourage his people, who are now ready to faint, with hopes of that salvation which, in due time, he will work for them....
The Blessings of the Gospel. B. C. 720. 1 The wilderness and the solitary place shall be...
Ye prophets and ministers of God, comfort and encourage God's people, who are now ready to faint, with hopes and assurance of that salvation which, in due time, I will work for them. He mentions han...
God's People Are To Prepare Themselves For Deliverance ( Isaiah 35:3-7 ). But those who would participate in the blessing must also prepare themselves, and Isaiah calls on the people to become str...
TRANSFORMATION Isaiah 35:1-2 ; Isaiah 35:7 . The wilderness and the solitary place, &c. Chapter s 34, 35, form one prediction, first announcing the doom of Edom, and then taking us into a n...
Isaiah 35:1 . The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; They shall be so glad that they shall inspire gladness where all was desolation, and brooding, melancholy batswing, an...
Isaiah 35:1 . The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad. After giving the people bright hopes of recovery from the devastations of invading armies, the prophet dwells at large on the glo...
The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them The blessings of the Gospel The thirty-fourth and the thirty-fifth Chapter s of Isaiah are by the best scholars supposed to constitu...
EXPOSITION Isaiah 35:1-23 THE GLORY OF THE LAST TIMES . On the punishment of God's enemies will follow the peace, prosperity, and glory of his Church. Previously, the Church is i...
The Joyful State of Christ's Kingdom. We have, in this chapter, a beautiful and majestic picture of the flourishing condition of Christ's kingdom, of the glorious future awaiting those who belong...
Acts 18:23 ; Hebrews 12:12 ; Isaiah 40:1 ; Isaiah 40:2 ; Isaiah 52:1 ; Isaiah 52:2 ; Isaiah 57:14-16 ; Job 16:5 ; Job 4:3 ; Job 4:4 ; Judges 7:11 ; Luke 22:32 ; Luke 22:43
Strengthen — Ye ministers of God, comfort and encourage God's people, who are now ready to faint.