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In this chapter, the prophet used the wilderness as a symbol of destruction and despair, and water as the symbol of hope and redemption. He concluded with, \u201cAnd the ransomed of the LORD shall return, and come with shouting to Zion, crowned with joy everlasting. They shall attain joy and gladness, while sorrow and sighing flee\u201d (14). Once again, Malbim\u2019s* keen sense of language clarified a point otherwise obscured: from whom will sadness and sighing flee?<\/span><\/p>\n

The medievals assumed that they would flee from the Israelites who would \u201ccome shouting to Zion.\u201d Malbim, however, who interpreted the chapter as referring to the final redemption, correctly assumed that one flees only if one is being chased. Since it is difficult to imagine that the Israelites were chasing after sadness and sighing, he wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

Those whom the Lord will ransom from all their distress will return from their exile and go joyously to Zion\u2014unlike their return from the Babylonian exile to Zion, which was accompanied by sorrow and sighing because they experienced many setbacks as reported in Ezra and Nehemiah. This second time, however, eternal happiness will appear above them with no subsequent sorrow as there was during the Second Temple.<\/span><\/p>\n

When they returned from Babylonia, they did not experience joy and exultation immediately and sadness and sighing departed from them only gradually, making room for the joy and exultation to follow\u2026 in this situation, it would be incorrect to say that sadness and sighing \u201cfled\u201d because one flees only from a pursuer and there was none in this case.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the final redemption, however, they will instantly acquire joy and exultation, leaving sadness and sighing to flee from the joy and exultation that were chasing them away. Joy is expressed openly, while exultation is internal, so the sadness in the heart will flee from the exultation, while the overt sighing will flee from the open joy.<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u00a0 may have to wait until messianic times to experience ultimate and permanent joy and exultation, but there is certainly a sufficient amount available in the here and now providing we are mindful of it and pursue it.<\/span><\/p>\n

*For the significance of Malbim\u2019s commentary to the Book of Isaiah,<\/span> see our introduction to chapter 1.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","image":{"ID":66788,"id":66788,"title":"is35-flee","filename":"is35-flee.jpg","filesize":0,"url":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee.jpg","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/while-sadness-and-sighing-flee\/is35-flee\/","alt":"","author":"7","description":"","caption":"","name":"is35-flee","status":"inherit","uploaded_to":66787,"date":"2019-12-10 12:13:09","modified":"2019-12-10 12:13:17","menu_order":0,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","type":"image","subtype":"jpeg","icon":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-includes\/images\/media\/default.png","width":1920,"height":1280,"sizes":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-150x150.jpg","thumbnail-width":150,"thumbnail-height":150,"medium":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-300x200.jpg","medium-width":300,"medium-height":200,"medium_large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-768x512.jpg","medium_large-width":768,"medium_large-height":512,"large":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-1024x683.jpg","large-width":1024,"large-height":683,"1536x1536":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee.jpg","1536x1536-width":1536,"1536x1536-height":1024,"2048x2048":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee.jpg","2048x2048-width":1920,"2048x2048-height":1280,"post_full_size":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-1200x800.jpg","post_full_size-width":1200,"post_full_size-height":800,"home_baner":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/is35-flee-630x420.jpg","home_baner-width":630,"home_baner-height":420}},"embedded_video":"","video_duration":"","show_fb_comments":true,"credit_media":""},"tile":{"top_caption":"","main_caption":"\u201cWhile Sadness and Sighing Flee\u201d","main_caption_size":"1","sub_caption":"But what are they fleeing from? 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