Psalm 65:12
Holman Christian Standard Bible
12 The wilderness pastures overflow,
and the hills are robed with joy.(A)
Isaiah 6:11
Holman Christian Standard Bible
11 Then I said, “Until when, Lord?”(A) And He replied:
Until cities lie in ruins without inhabitants,(B)
houses are without people,
the land is ruined and desolate,
Isaiah 7:21-25
Holman Christian Standard Bible
21 On that day
a man will raise a young cow and two sheep,
22 and from the abundant milk they give
he will eat butter,
for every survivor in the land will eat butter and honey.(A)
23 And on that day
every place where there were 1,000 vines,
worth 1,000 pieces of silver,
will become thorns and briers.(B)
24 A man will go there with bow and arrows
because the whole land will be thorns and briers.
25 You will not go to all the hills
that were once tilled with a hoe,
for fear of the thorns and briers.
Those hills will be places for oxen to graze
and for sheep to trample.
Isaiah 27:10
Holman Christian Standard Bible
10 For the fortified city will be deserted,
pastures abandoned and forsaken like a wilderness.
Calves will graze there,
and there they will spread out and strip its branches.
Isaiah 32:15
Holman Christian Standard Bible
15 until the Spirit from heaven is poured out on us.(A)
Then the desert will become an orchard,
and the orchard will seem like a forest.(B)
Isaiah 41:18-19
Holman Christian Standard Bible
18 I will open rivers on the barren heights,(A)
and springs in the middle of the plains.
I will turn the desert into a pool of water
and dry land into springs of water.(B)
19 I will plant cedars in the desert,
acacias, myrtles, and olive trees.(C)
I will put juniper trees in the desert,
elms and cypress trees together,
Isaiah 51:3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 For the Lord will comfort Zion;(A)
He will comfort all her waste places,
and He will make her wilderness like Eden,(B)
and her desert like the garden of the Lord.(C)
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and melodious song.
Isaiah 55:12-13
Holman Christian Standard Bible
12 You will indeed go out with joy
and be peacefully guided;
the mountains and the hills will break into singing before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.(A)
13 Instead of the thornbush, a cypress will come up,
and instead of the brier, a myrtle will come up;(B)
it will make a name for Yahweh(C)
as an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.
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