“For the LORD has comforted Zion, comforted all her wastelands. He will make her wilderness a paradise [Eden], and her desert a garden of God. Joy and gladness will be in her, thanksgiving and music.”
In Israel, the first name “Eden” is relatively common, for both boys and girls. Our eldest daughter is also an “Eden.”
The city of Jerusalem is also named Eden in the Bible. Jerusalem is thus like a Garden of Eden, like paradise. It is a city coveted by all peoples and religions. The name Eden evokes joy in the Bible. The Psalm says: “You will give them drink of the river of your delights.” This “your delights,” in Hebrew Adnecha (עדניך), contains the root word Eden.
What God has devastated, He makes right. God has said and done this many times. After the widespread destruction of the kingdoms of Israel and Judah and the desolation of the land of Israel, God comforts Zion and promises His people Israel to make everything right again. What He has devastated, He “makes a...
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Beautifully said🙌