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Isaiah 65:19-25

King James Version (KJV)

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19. And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying. 20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner [being] an hundred years old shall be accursed. 21. And they shall build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust [shall be] the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 65:19-25 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Isaiah 65:19

Theological / Devotional

Rejoice in Jerusalem. At the time of Isaiah there was little reason for rejoicing over Jerusalem. The armies of Sennacherib came against the city, and the Assyrian king boasted of having shut up Hezekiah like a bird in a cage (see on 2 Kings 18:13). When the Babylonian envoys visited Hezekiah, Isaiah foresaw the time when the armies of Babylon would come against Jerusalem and carry away its treasures and its people (ch. 39:6, 7). Micah, Isaiah’s contemporary, foresaw the time when Zion would be “plowed as a field” and Jerusalem and its Temple would be destroyed (Micah 3:12). But the Lord was planning a glorious future for Jerusalem (Isa. 52:9; 62:1, 7). The city might have been established as the great metropolis of the earth. She might have been “the world’s diadem of glory” (DA 577; see p. 30). But when the Jews rejected the Messiah, Jerusalem’s day of grace ended (Matt. 23:37, 38; DA 578). However, the new Israel of God looks to the heavenly Jerusalem as the fulfillment of its joy.

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