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there is the reappearance in the " second " Isaiah of portions of 

 that beautiful description of a land of peace given in chap, xxxv, 

 beginning : 



" The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them ; 

 And the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose," 



and ending : 



" The ransomed of the Lord shall return, 

 And come to Sion with songs 

 And everlasting joy upon their heads : 

 They shall obtain joy and gladness, 

 And sorrow and sighing shall flee away." 



This seems to show that Isaiah revelled in the word-picture 

 he has drawn, which has no superior in the whole range of 

 literature. 



This language is often quoted in what is called the c< second " 

 Isaiah ; sometimes at length, sometimes in allusion, but at least 

 nine times in all. 



Similarly the almost equally beautiful picture in chap, xi, 

 6-9— 



" The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, 

 And the leopard shall lie down with the kid ; 



They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain :" 



is reproduced in chap, lxv, 25 — 



"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, 

 And the lion shall eat straw like the bullock : 

 And dust shall be the serpent's meat. 



They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain, saith 

 the Lord."* 



Continual allusions are made to Lebanon, Carmel, Sharon and 

 the Forest, often associated together, though these are frequently 

 obscured in our versions by the translation of Carmelt as " fruit- 

 ful field." Such allusions are found in chaps, x, 18 ; xvi, 10 ; 



* Jeremiah and Ezekiel have their own special peculiarities of 

 expression, but they never quote passages of their own at length, as 

 Isaiah does. 



t Carmel is used ten times in Isaiah as meaning "fruitful field"; it 

 occurs twice in Jeremiah, but one of these cases refers to Mount Carmel. 

 Elsewhere it is apparently not used at all. It occurs in this sense and 

 context seven times in the undisputed Isaiah, once in the historical 

 chapters, and twice in the other portions of the book. 



