Isaiah 35:1

Let the desert and dry region be happy; ¹  let the wilderness ²  rejoice and bloom like a lily!

Ps 48:11; Ps 97:8; Isa 4:2; Isa 27:6; Isa 29:17; Isa 32:15,16; Isa 40:3; Isa 51:3; Isa 52:9,10; Isa 55:12,13; Isa 61:10,11; Isa 66:10-14; Eze 36:35; Ho 14:5,6; Re 19:1-7

¹ tn The final mem (ם) on the verb יְשֻׂשׂוּם (yÿsusum) is dittographic (note the initial mem on the following noun מִדְבָּר [midbar]). The ambiguous verbal form is translated as a jussive because it is parallel to the jussive form תָגֵל (tagel). The jussive is used rhetorically here, not as a literal command or prayer.

² tn Or “Arabah” (NASB); NAB, NIV, TEV “desert.”