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Chapter 31:1 says, "Woe to them that go down to [[Egypt]] for help." Throughout the Scriptures, [[Egypt]] is a picture of the world. For the [[Israel]]ites to be in [[Egypt]] was for them to be out of [[God]]'s perfect will for their lives, to be unseparated from the things [[God]] had instructed them to be separated from.
In the first eight verses of chapter 32, [[Isaiah]] is thinking of the joyous aftermath of Zion's deliverance from the [[Assyria]]n army. Included in his thinking is the future reign of our [[Lord]] here on earth. In verses 9-15 he talks about careless women. It is difficult to see the connection between the first eight verses and verse nine, but there must have been a group of influential [[God]]less women in the court who had set themselves against everything that [[Isaiah]] stood for. Very likely, his meaning here is that a period of trouble is to intervene between the defeat of the [[Assyria]]n army and the reign of the [[Messiah]]. The forest (verse 19) is the [[Assyria]]n army! The city is Nineveh, or the centralized forces of evil in the latter days.
In verse 20 he says, "Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters." Waters are expression of trouble, and sowing is the continuance of a [[God]]ly [[Christian]] in paths of daily duty.
Chapter 34 is one of the darkest chapters in the [[Bible]]. Verses 1-7 speak of the Battle of Armageddon; verses 8-15 about the desolation following the disaster; and verses 16 and 17 speak of the divine guarantee that [[Israel]] will possess and inhabit the land that [[God]] has promised her.
In contrast, chapter 35 is one of the brightest and most joyful chapters in the [[Bible]]. It speaks of the restoration of the land and the manifestation of the [[Lord]], and ends by speaking of the return of the redeemed remnant to Zion. This return will be an appointed way, a highway, a holy way, a plainly marked way, and a safe way. The redeemed will joyfully return to Zion, with everlasting exultation. At last they will obtain gladness, and the sorrow and sighing that has so long plagued them will flee away.
