Isaiah 65:23
My elect will not labor in vain, and they will not bring forth in disorder. For they are the offspring of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity are with them.
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Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and you, and with your offspring after you in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
Leviticus 26:20Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.
Leviticus 26:29so much so that you will eat the flesh of your sons and your daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:38You will sow much seed upon the ground, but you will harvest little. For the locusts will devour everything.
Job 21:8They see their offspring continue before them: a commotion of close relatives and of children’s children in their sight.
Isaiah 49:4And I said: “I have labored toward emptiness. I have consumed my strength without purpose and in vain. Therefore, my judgment is with the Lord, and my work is with my God.”
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 65:18-25
Predictions of Happiness. ( b. c. 706.) 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 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… Read the whole commentary →