I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia, the myrtle, and the olive. I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,
God speaks here with tender care, wanting His people to know His counsel is unchanging and to make them secure. He is not merely present but all-sufficient: your weakness meets His strength, your friendlessness meets His help, your readiness to fall meets His upholding right hand full of righteousness.
AI summary
Commenting on Isaiah 41:10-20
I will plant in the wilderness the cedar, the shittah tree,.... Where such trees had not used to grow, but in Lebanon, and such like places. The "shittah tree" is thought to be a kind of cedar; it is the same of which is the "shittim wood" mentioned in Exo 25:5 and is so called by the Targum here: and the myrtle, and the oil...
(Isa 32:15; Isa 55:13). shittah--rather, the "acacia," or Egyptian thorn, from which the gum Arabic is obtained [LOWTH]. oil tree--the olive. fir tree--rather, the "cypress": grateful by its shade. pine--GESENIUS translates, "the holm." box tree--not the shrub used for bordering flower beds, but [GESENIUS] a kind of cedar, remarkable for the smallness of its cones, and the upward direction of its branches.