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Isaiah 65:22

They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat, so that they will be deprived of the fruit of their labor; for as the days of a tree are the days of My people, all of them being blessed with a ripe age, as of a cedar or oak, and Mine elect, those whom His mercy has chosen to be His children, shall long enjoy the work of their hands. All of these expressions are figurative and portray the rich beauties of the blessings enjoyed in the Lord's kingdom.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 65:22. _THEY SHALL NOT BUILD, AND ANOTHER INHABIT_] The reverse of the curse denounced on the disobedient, Deuteronomy 28:30: "Thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein;...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEY SHALL NOT BUILD, AND ANOTHER INHABIT - Every man shall enjoy the avails of his labor. FOR AS THE DAYS I OF A TREE ARE THE DAYS OF MY PEOPLE - That is, in that future time, such shall be the lengt...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    AN EXPANSION OF THE THEME OF ISAIAH 65:13. They may build houses and plant vineyards, certain that they will live to enjoy them. Their lives shall be as the life of a tree, long, and undisturbed by ca...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ELECT. chosen....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The last sentence of Isaiah 65:16 inspires the loftiest flight of the prophet's imagination. The "former troubles shall be forgotten" in the glories of a new creation, in which all things minister to...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In consequence of this extension of the term of life, each man shall enjoy the fruit of his own labour (cf. Deuteronomy 28:30). The idea is therefore somewhat different from that of ch. Isaiah 62:8-9....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR AS THE DAYS OF A TREE ARE THE DAYS OF MY PEOPLE— The prophet here describing another privilege of the church in these happy days, says, that the faithful at this time shall _plant vineyards, and e...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. CREATED TEXT: Isaiah 65:17-25 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. They sh...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    65:22 enjoy (a-34) Or 'shall use,' 'use up.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AS THE DAYS OF A TREE... — We may think of the cedars of Lebanon or the oaks of Bashan as furnishing the prophet with the ideal standard of longevity. Commonly, as by Homer and other poets, the lives...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֹ֤א יִבְנוּ֙ וְ אַחֵ֣ר יֵשֵׁ֔ב לֹ֥א יִטְּע֖ו

  • 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

    A NEW EARTH FOR GOD'S SERVANTS Isaiah 65:13-25 Notice the wide difference that religion makes to the soul. The children of God are secured against the evils which visit all others. _They_ eat; _they...

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

    In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _A tree. Septuagint, "of the tree of life," Jeremias xviii. 8. (Calmet) --- Continuance. Hebrew, "My elect shall long enjoy the works," &c. (Haydock) --- They shall not build for others to enjoy._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Everything and every event shall be blessed to the blessed in Christ. For it is this which secures their mercies: they are the seed, the offspring, the children, of Him, who is blessed of the Lord, an...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    _According to the days of a tree. _Some think that this is a promise of eternal life; as if men had the tree of life; but that is forged ingenuity, and far removed from the Prophet’s meaning. And I do...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEY SHALL NOT BUILD, AND ANOTHER INHABIT,.... As the Canaanites did, whose houses the Israelites inhabited; but they shall inhabit the houses they have built, and shall not be dispossessed by an enem...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree [are] the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. Ver....

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

    _They shall build houses and inhabit them_ The prophet here describes another privilege of the church in these happy days. They shall enjoy blessings the very reverse of the curses denounced on the di...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    SHALL LONG ENJOY THE WORK OF THEIR HANDS: _ Heb._ shall make them continue long, or shall wear out...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    17-25 In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall be no more rememb...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Duration and perpetuity are promised to them in their happy estate....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 65:22 build H1129 (H8799) another H312 inhabit H3427 (H8799) plant H5193 (H8799) another H312 eat...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    GOD'S CHOSEN ONES WILL RECEIVE GREAT BLESSING, BUT IT WILL NOT BE SHARED BY THESE WHO HAVE BEEN DESCRIBED. AND GOD WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH, AND A NEW JERUSALEM. THE OLD WILL HAVE PASS...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _As the days of a tree_ TREES Of all natural objects trees have the closest fellowship with man. When growing together in dense primeval forests they indeed exclude his presence, and the gloom and s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth_ “NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH,” “New heavens and a new earth,” _i._a new universe, Hebrew having no single word for the Cosmos. The phrase sums up a...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:17 Isaiah uses word pictures to describe the joys of the world to come. The description goes far beyond anything the world has ever seen. ⇐...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:22 LIKE THE DAYS OF A TREE. A picture of durability; trees can live for hundreds of years, as compared to grass, which withers and fades (Isaiah 40:7)

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THE WORK AND ENJOYMENT OF GOD’S PEOPLE Isaiah 65:22. _Mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands_. Connection of the text— I. THE CHARACTER AND RELATION OF BELIEVERS. They are God’s people...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Genesis 5:27; Genesis 5:5; Isaiah 65:15; Isaiah 65:9; Leviticus 26:16;...

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