Isaiah 65:23
They do not labor for a vain thing, || Nor do they bring forth for trouble, || For they [are] the seed of the blessed of YHWH, || And their offspring with them.
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Genesis 17:7And I have established My covenant between Me and you, and your seed after you, throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant, to become God to you, and to your seed after you;
Leviticus 26:20and your strength has been consumed in vain, and your land does not give her produce, and the tree of the land does not give its fruit.
Leviticus 26:29And you have eaten [the] flesh of your sons; and you eat [the] flesh of your daughters.
Deuteronomy 28:38You take much seed out into the field, and you gather little in, for the locust consumes it;
Job 21:8Their seed is established, || Before their face with them, || And their offspring before their eyes.
Isaiah 49:4And I said, “I labored in vain, || I consumed my power for emptiness and vanity, || But my judgment [is] with YHWH, || And my wage 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 →