Verses 1-10

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 35:2).

7. Parched ground] RM 'mirage': this which so often deceives travellers in the desert will become a real lake.

Dragons] RV 'jackals.'

8. An highway] by which the exiles may return through the desert.

9. Cp. Isaiah 51:11.