7 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

• Blessing and Curse
• Hope
• New Creation

• The Desert Blossoms as the Rose
• The Desert Shall Bloom

6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

• Acts 8:8 — And there was great joy in that city.
• Amos 9:13 — Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt
• Ezek 36:35 — And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited.
• Ezek 47:8 — Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea: which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed.
• Hos 14:5 — I will be as the dew unto Israel: he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.
• Isa 4:2 — In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that are escaped of Israel.
• Isa 27:6 — He shall cause them that come of Jacob to take root: Israel shall blossom and bud, and fill the face of the world with fruit.
• Isa 27:10 — Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
• Isa 29:17 — Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
• Isa 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Isa 32:15 — Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
• Isa 40:3 — The voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the LORD, make straight in the desert a highway for our God.
• Isa 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Isa 41:19 — I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree, and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will set in the desert the fir tree, and the pine, and the box tree together:
• Isa 51:3 — For the LORD shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the LORD; joy and gladness shall be found therein, t
• Isa 52:9 — Break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem: for the LORD hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem.
• Isa 55:12 — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
• Isa 55:12 — For ye shall go out with joy, and be led forth with peace: the mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
• Isa 61:10 — I will greatly rejoice in the LORD, my soul shall be joyful in my God; for he hath clothed me with the garments of salvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decketh
• Isa 66:10 — Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
• Joel 2:21 — Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things.
• Luke 11:24 — When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.
• Neh 8:10 — Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our LORD: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of
• Num 17:5 — And it shall come to pass, that the man’s rod, whom I shall choose, shall blossom: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, whereby they murmur against you.
• Ps 48:11 — Let mount Zion rejoice, let the daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy judgments.
• Ps 65:13 — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
• Ps 96:12 — Let the field be joyful, and all that is therein: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice
• Ps 97:8 — Zion heard, and was glad; and the daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy judgments, O LORD.
• Rev 19:1 — And after these things I heard a great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, unto the Lord our God:
• Song 2:1 — I am the rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.