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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 65:17

Behold, I create new heavens... — The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament — verbally in 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1, substantially in the “restitution of all things” (Acts 3:21), in the “manifestation of the sons of God” (Romans 8:19). The “former things,” the sin and sorrow of the past, shall then fade away from the memory of God’s people, absorbed in the abounding and everlasting joy.

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See also Isaiah 65:17 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 65:17. _I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH_] This has been variously understood. Some Jews and some Christians understand it _literally_. God shall change the state of the atmosphere,...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    FOR BEHOLD - The idea in this verse is, that there should be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were to be made. I CREATE NEW HEAVENS - Calamity and punishment in the Bible a...

  • 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

    THE COMING GOOD FORTUNE OF THE RIGHTEOUS. Yahweh again is the speaker. My people shall rejoice in the satisfaction of their wants when ye, rebellious ones, are wailing in your need. Nought shall be le...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    NEW HEAVENS, &C.: i.e. new, in respect to the old. Not the "new" of 2 Peter 3:13, or Revelation 21:1. Note the contrast of this with the only two references to the history of Revelation 21 :...

  • 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

    _new heavens and a new earth_ i.e. a new universe, Hebrew having no single word for the Cosmos (cf. ch. Isaiah 66:22; 2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). The phrase sums up a whole aspect of the prophetic...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1021 THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH Isaiah 65:17. _Behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and rejoice...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE, &C.— Vitringa observes, that these expressions signify a new and better form of religion, to be introduced into the church, the old and inferior one being abolished. It is plain...

  • 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

    For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth. As Caleb inherited the same land whi...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    The same language is in NT. applied to God's final interposition and restoration of all things (2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1). Nature itself will be transformed to be in harmony with regenerate Israe...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    At the present time, the people can see nothing but the great damage that enemies have done. Those enemies ruined both the *Temple and the city. But this situation will not continue. The *Lord is maki...

  • 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-...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־הִנְנִ֥י בֹורֵ֛א שָׁמַ֥יִם חֲדָשִׁ֖ים וָ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    For, behold, I create (y) new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (y) I will so altar and change the state of my church, that it will seem to dwell in...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    New earth, in eternity, (Clarius) or here indeed, (2 Peter iii. 3., &c.; Houbigant) having purified the former by the general conflagration, which many assert will take place at the end of 6,000 years...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These blessed promises are fulfilled in a gracious sense, when sinners are made new creatures in Christ Jesus; and more fulfilled in that upper and brighter world, which John saw in a vision; Revelati...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    17._For, lo, I will create new heavens and a new earth. _By these metaphors he promises a remarkable change of affairs; as if God had said that he has both the inclination and the power not only to re...

  • 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

    FOR, BEHOLD, I CREATE NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH,.... This prophecy began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gospel, when through the preaching of it there was a new face of things...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Ver. 17. _For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth._] I am making of a new worl...

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

    _For behold, I create new heavens_, &c. I will tell you yet a more admirable thing: I am about wholly to change the state, not only of my people, freeing them from the afflictions and troubles by whic...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    For, behold, I create new heavens, the plural being applied to the abode of the blessed in many passages of the Bible, AND A NEW EARTH, Cf Revelation 21; AND THE FORMER, that which was here infested w...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    COME INTO MIND: _ Heb._ come upon the heart...

  • 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

    FOR, BEHOLD, I will tell you yet a more admirable thing, I am about wholly to alter and change the state not only of my people, who are now afflicted, restoring them to a more lightsome state, more fr...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 65:17 create H1254 (H8802) new H2319 heavens H8064 new H2319 earth H776 former H7223 remembered H2142 ...

  • 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...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    BEHOLD Verse 17 (Isaiah 65:17) looks beyond the kingdom-age to the new heavens and the new earth (see refs. At "create"), but verses 18-25 (Isaiah 65:18) describe the kingdom-age itself. Longevity is...

  • 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

    _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 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

    2 Peter 3:13; Isaiah 51:16; Isaiah 66:22; Jeremiah 3:16; Revelat

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I create — I am about wholly to change the state not only of my people, but to bring a new face upon the world, which shall abide until a new heavens and earth appear, in which shall dwell nothing but...

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