Their offspring with them... — The picture presented is that of a patriarchal family, including many generations, fathers no longer outliving their children and mourning for their death, as Jacob did (Genesis 37:35; Genesis 42:38), and as men had often done in the times of war, famine, and pestilence, through which Isaiah had lived.
Verse Isaiah 65:23. _THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN_ - "My chosen shall not labour in vain"] I remove בחירי _bechirai, my elect_, from the end of the twenty-second to the beginning of the twenty-third...
THEY SHALL NOT LABOR IN VAIN - That is, either because their land shall be unfruitful, or because others shall plunder them. NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE - Lowth renders this, ‘Neither shall they gener...
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...
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...
THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:41, reversed). Compare Leviticus 26:16. App-92....
_They shall not_ WEARY THEMSELVES FOR VANITY] ch. Isaiah 49:4; Habakkuk 2:13; because God's blessing rests on them. _nor bring forth_(sc. CHILDREN) _for_ SUDDEN DESTRUCTION] Jeremiah 15:8;...
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...
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...
THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN, NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE; FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM. _ They shall not ... bring forth for trouble_ - literally...
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...
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-...
לֹ֤א יִֽיגְעוּ֙ לָ † רִ֔יק וְ לֹ֥א...
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...
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...
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...
_In. Hebrew, "for trouble." Chaldean, "death." Septuagint, "malediction." The children shall not be cut off; and baptism shall secure their salvation._...
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...
23._They shall not toil in vain. _He enumerates other kinds of blessings which God promises to the kingdom of Christ; for, although God always blessed his people, yet the blessings were in some measur...
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...
THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN,.... As they do, who build houses, and enemies come and turn them out of them, and dwell in them themselves; or who plant vineyards, and sow their fields, and strangers c...
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they [are] the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. Ver. 23. _They shall not labour in vain._] As wicked men...
_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...
They shall not labor in vain, without result or lasting reward, NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE, their children inheriting nothing but misery; FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, begotten of...
THE NEW HEAVEN AND THE NEW EARTH...
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...
And not only a blessing to them, but also to their offspring. But what is here promised which wicked men do not ofttimes enjoy, and God's people ofttimes want? ANSW. 1. Wicked men may have them for t...
Isaiah 65:23 labor H3021 (H8799) vain H7385 forth H3205 (H8799) trouble H928 descendants H2233 blessed H1288 ...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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...
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. ⇐...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
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'...
1 Corinthians 15:58; Acts 2:39; Acts 3:25; Acts 3:26; Deuteronomy 28:
With them — Is blessed with them....