Then shall the lame [man] leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
Ver. 6. Then shall the lame man leap as an hart.] As that impotent man did, Act 3:8 and those Loripedes Heb 12:13
And the tongue of the dumb sing.] As good old Zacharias did, Luk 1:64 not so much for his speech restored, or his son received, as for his Saviour now at hand; and as did those that sang, "He hath done all things well; he maketh both the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak," Mar 7:37 yea, to utter the great things of God, and to speak good of his name. Lo here, saith Luther, miracles to confirm the gospel to be of God, against those that deride his ministers, saying, They cannot make so much as a lame horse sound: for all they in whose hearts it taketh effect, of blind are made to see, of deaf to hear, of lame to go, and of dumb to speak.
For in the wilderness shall waters break out.] This, and that which followeth in the next verse, Junius maketh to be the matter of their song - viz., the grace of God abundantly communicated to his Church. See John 7:38,39. The Jews dream that when their Messiah cometh, the Red Sea shall again be divided and the rock cloven, much water gushing out, &c. Thus they work themselves into the fool's paradise of a sublime dotage, by misunderstanding this text.