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Isaiah 66:14

And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.

Your bones shall flourish like an herb. "Your bones," which once were "dried up" by the "fire" of God's wrath ( ), shall live again, ( ; ; , etc.)

Flourish like an herb - when they shall "be graffed into their own olive tree" (Romans 11:15 .)

And the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants - manifested in behalf of them.

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See also Isaiah 66:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND WHEN YE SEE THIS - This great accession to the church from the Gentile world. YOUR BONES SHALL FLOURISH LIKE AN HERB - This is an image which is often employed in the Scriptures. When the vigor of...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 66 The Finale: The Two Classes and the Prophecy of Isaiah in a Retrospect 1. _The apostates and their wicked worship (Isaiah 66:1) _ 2. _The remnant suffering and encouraged (Isaiah 66:5) _ 3...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 66. Here divisions are hard to define. The theme the coming punishment of the apostates and the coming glory of the pious is pursued now on one side, now on the other. ISAIAH 66:1. AN ATTACK O...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WHEN YE SEE THIS. as soon as ye see this....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    R.V. AND YE SHALL SEE (it) AND YOUR HEART &c.; recalling ch. Isaiah 60:5. _your bones shall flourish like_ THE TENDER GRASS (R.V.)] i.e. shall be fresh and full of sap (cf. Job 21:24; Proverbs 15:30)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A promise of prosperity to Jerusalem and her inhabitants....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    AND WHEN YE SEE THIS, &C.— When the true believers, at the time of this distinguished mercy of God to his church, should observe his favour to them, and his punishment of their enemies, full of joy th...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. BIRTH OF NEW ZION TEXT: Isaiah 66:7-14 7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a manchild. 8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen Such thing...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. WHERE, etc.] RV 'what manner of house.. what place shall be my rest.' The v. is a strong rebuke of such as, without a really religious spirit, idly trusted in the inviolability of Zion, and the pro...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    AN HERB] RV 'the tender grass'; their youth will be renewed....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 66 The *Lord divides the ‘people of God’ into two types. There are those...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The *Lord continues the word picture that describes *Jerusalem as a mother. So ‘she’ and ‘her’ in verse 12 mean *Jerusalem. And God’s people, that is, his holy nation, are like the child. God will pro...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YOUR BONES SHALL FLOURISH... — “Heart” and “bones” stand respectively as symbols of the inner and outer life. The “bones,” the branches, so to speak, of the body, which had been dry and sere, should r...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וּ רְאִיתֶם֙ וְ שָׂ֣שׂ לִבְּכֶ֔ם וְ עַצְמֹותֵ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD'S PEOPLE MADE A BLESSING Isaiah 66:1-14 The prophet forecasts the advent of a new day, when places and rites would be comparatively unimportant compared with the condition of the heart, Isaiah 66...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This last chapter is confessedly difficult of interpretation. In it the prophet seems to look beyond all that he has previously described, and to deal with destiny. He first announces anew the fact of...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your (p) bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Herb, in baptism and the resurrection. --- Enemies, the Chaldeans, infidel Jews, and all the reprobate, ver 15. How many miracles were wrought by Christian preachers! Persecutors have come to an unti...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    All these are so many blessed promises, with which the Church was to be distinguished in gospel days, when the Lord had brought home his holy word with power to the heart. Ordinances were to become bl...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    14._And ye shall see. _By the word “see,” he expresses undoubted experience, that believers may not doubt as to the result, but, embracing this prediction with full belief, may patiently endure for a...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 66 speaks of the judgment that introduces it, and consequently gives us more historical details. The temple is rebuilt in Jerusalem (Isaiah 66:6), but Jehovah does not own it, man alone being...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND WHEN YE SEE THIS,.... All the above things prophesied of come to pass; the conversion of the Jews; the peaceable and prosperous condition of the church of Christ; and perceive, feel, and enjoy the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And when ye see [this], your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his servants, and [his] indignation toward his enemies. Ve...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And when ye see this_ To what a happy state the church is restored; _your heart shall rejoice_ The peace of the church, and the extension of the kingdom of Christ, are always causes of real joy to su...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    And when ye see this, realizing, to some extent, the riches of God's mercy, YOUR HEART SHALL REJOICE, AND YOUR BONES SHALL FLOURISH, be filled with new life and strength, LIKE AN HERB; AND THE HAND OF...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE HAPPINESS OF THE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    5-14 The prophet turns to those that trembled at God's word, to comfort and encourage them. The Lord will appear, to the joy of the humble believer, and to the confusion of hypocrites and persecutors...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    The peace and tranquillity of the church, and the propagation of the kingdom of Christ, is always the cause of a heart-rejoicing to such as fear God, PSALMS 105:3; the reason is, because it is the gre...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 66:14 see H7200 (H8804) heart H3820 rejoice H7797 (H8804) bones H6106 flourish H6524 (H8799) grass...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    WHILE THE RIGHTEOUS WILL FLOURISH GOD WILL FINALLY JUDGE THE UNRIGHTEOUS (ISAIAH 66:14). Isaiah 66:14 ‘And you will see and your heart will rejoice, And your bones will flourish like the tender gra...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Blessings of the coming universal Kingdom. CHARACTERS: God, Christ. CONCLUSION: Following the day of Christ's vengeance the sorrows of Israel will be turned into abundant joys. All the Gen...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 66:1. _The heaven is my throne._ This chapter applies to Isaiah's time, as well as to future times; and though the Lord rejected the impure worship of the temple, yet he would dwell with the co...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The hand of the Lord shall be known toward His servants_ THE LORD’S HAND REVEALED I. SOME OF THE WAYS THE HAND OF THE LORD MAKES ITSELF KNOWN TOWARDS HIS SERVANTS. 1. In the character they bear....

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:1 Though the worship of God is violated now, in the future falsehood will be judged, true worship will spread, and God will be honored forever. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 66:10 The certainty of future blessing calls for joy in the present. HER CONSOLING BREAST.... YOU SHALL BE COMFORTED IN JERUSALEM. The poetic image is of a nursing baby who finds...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE LORD’S HAND REVEALED Isaiah 66:14. _The hand of the_ LORD _shall be known toward His servants_. I. _Some of the ways the hand of the Lord makes itself known toward His servants._ 1. In the char...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XII.—FINAL THREATENINGS AND PROMISES (Isaiah 66:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 66:1 THE UNGODLY EXILES REBUKED

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Thus saith the LORD, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that you build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? (Isaiah 66:1) They're going to build a new te...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Ezekiel 37:1; Ezra 7:9; Ezra 8:18; Ezra 8:22; Ezra 8:31;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Rejoice — The peace of the church and the propagation of the kingdom of Christ, is always the cause of an heart rejoicing to such as fear God, so that they flourish like an herb in the spring. The han...

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