Advent · Third Sunday in Advent · Year A
Isaiah 35:1-10
December 14, 2025
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Commentary
Isaiah 35:1-10 Commentary by Anathea Portier-Young workingpreacher.org
Reads Isaiah 35 as both God's coming in Christ and our own coming home, tracing the transformation of wilderness into highway as literal and spiritual homecoming.
Isaiah 35:1-10 Commentary cepreaching.org
Treats Isaiah 35 as a vision of reversal, where the desert's transformation previews the healing miracles Jesus points to in Matthew 11.
Isaiah 35 Commentary: Israel's Happy Future enduringword.com
Verse-by-verse commentary on Isaiah 35 emphasizing the wilderness blossoming and the 'Highway of Holiness' as pictures of restored Zion.
Isaiah 35 Commentary preceptaustin.org
Compiles multiple classic commentators (Guzik, Teed, Walvoord) on Isaiah 35, framing it as Israel's promised millennial restoration.
Advent 3 • Isaiah 35:1–10 • December 15, 2013 concordiatheology.org
Jeffrey Gibbs' Concordia Seminary homiletical help walks through Isaiah 35:1-10 verse by verse for the LSB Advent 3 Old Testament reading.
Background & Word Study
Isaiah 35 sefaria.org
Hebrew text with Jewish translation and commentary for Isaiah 35, including the 'Sacred Way' (derekh ha-qodesh) highway imagery.
Isaiah 35:1-7 - Here Is Your God-Who Restores All Things enterthebible.org
Word study on Isaiah 35:1-7 tracing how God's coming strengthens hands, firms up knees, and restores creation itself, not just people.
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