Isaiah 65:23
My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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Genesis 17:7And I will establish my covenant between me and thee, and between thy sad after thee in their generations, by a perpetual covenant: to be a God to thee, and to thy seed after thee.
Leviticus 26:20Your labour shall be spent in vain, the ground shall not bring forth her increase, nor the trees yield their fruit.
Leviticus 26:29So that you shall eat the flesh of your sons and of your daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:38Thou shalt cast much seed into the ground, and gather little: because the locusts shall consume all.
Job 21:8Their seed continueth before them, a multitude of kinsmen, and of children's children in their sight.
Isaiah 49:4And I said: I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength without cause and in vain: therefore my judgment is with the Lord, and my work 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 →