Isaiah 65:22
They do not build, and another inhabit, || They do not plant, and another eat, || For as the days of a tree [are] the days of My people, || And My chosen wear out the work of their hands.
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21And they have built houses, and inhabited, || And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty-nine years, and he dies.
Psalms 21:4He has asked for life from You, || You have given length of days to him, || For all time and forever.
Psalms 92:12The righteous flourish as a palm-tree, || He grows as a cedar in Lebanon.
Isaiah 65:9And I have brought out a Seed from Jacob, || And from Judah a Possessor of My mountain, || And My chosen ones possess it, || And My servants dwell there.
Revelation 20:3and he cast him into the abyss, and shut him up, and put a seal on him, that he may no longer lead the nations astray, until the one thousand years may be completed; and after these it is necessary for him to be loosed a short time.
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 →