Isaiah 55:13

"For you shall go out with joy, and be led out with peace. The mountains and the hills will break out before you into singing; and all the trees of the fields will clap their hands."

Key Reflection

This passage portrays a scene of divine deliverance and joy, where God's people are freed with gladness and peace. Nature itself rejoices, as mountains and hills break into song, and trees clap their hands, symbolizing the widespread celebration and the natural world's response to God’s liberating work.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Instead of the thorn -(Compare the notes atIsaiah 11:6-8;Isaiah 35:1-2;Isaiah 41:19;Isaiah 42:20). The word rendered ‘thorn’ (נעצוּץna‛ătsûts) occurs only here and inIsaiah 7:19. It evidently means a thorn, hedge, or thorny-bush. Shall come up the fir tree -(ברושׁberôsh; see the notes atIsaiah 14:8;Isaiah 37:24;Isaiah 60:13;Zechariah 11:2). A change would be produced in the moral condition of man as great as if in the natural world the rough and useless thorn should be succeeded by the beautiful and useful cypress (compareIsaiah 60:13). And instead of the brier -The brier is everywhere an emblem of desolation, and of an uncultivated country (seeIsaiah 5:6;Isaiah 7:23-24).

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