34 And the deſolate land Jhall be tilled, whereas it lay deſolate in the ſight of all that paſſed by.
35 And they r ſhall ſay, This land that vas deſolate
*Iſz51-3-is become like the garden of s * Eden ; and the waſte, and deſolate, and ruin'd cities are become fenced 7, and are inhabited-
r Strangers, or Foreigners, who had heard or ſeen the ſad Waſtes ; and now eirher hear or ſce the replanting of it, and how it ſucceedeth- s See the Phraſe, chap. 28. 13. moſt fruitful, pleaſant, and deſirable : This is true of the Church of Chriſt without an Hyperbole ; bur here *tis to be accommodated by a Comparative thus; thar good State the
Jews are now in, compared with what they were in, is as an E9:n to a Wilderneſs. : Not onlv built for Habitation, but fortified for Defence. 36 Then the heathen that are left « ronnd about you, ſhall know that I the LORD build the ruined places, and * Ch: 35, Plant chat that was deſolate : I the ® LORD have ſpoken r, * and willdoz. - ; # That were not garried away and diſperſed ; whether they were & 37. 14. Tyrians, Zidonians on the North, or Awmon, and Moab, and the Ph:1i- ftines, and Edomites Eaſtward and Southward ; theſe Remnants of the Heathen ſhall ſee and confeſs a peculiar Providence of God toward the Jews, in theirflouriſhing ſo greatly upon their return.
27 Thus faith the Lord GOD, I will yet for this be en-
quired x of by the houſe of Iſrael, to do zt for them, I will | mcreaſ: them with men like a flock.