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.