Isaiah 65:8

Adonai says, 1 “As the new wine is found in the cluster, 2 and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ 1 so will I do for my servants’ sake, 2 that I may not destroy them all. 1

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In The King James Version

Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

In Context

7your own depravities (moral evils), and the depravities (moral evils) of your fathers together,” says Adonai, 2 “who have burned incense on the mountains, 2 and blasphemed me on the hills. 2 Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

9I will bring offspring out of Jacob [Supplanter], 2 and out of Judah [Praised] an inheritor of my mountains. 1 My chosen will inherit it, 2 and my servants will dwell there. 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 6:13If there is a tenth left in it, 2 that also will in turn be consumed: 1 as a terebinth, and as an oak, whose stock remains when they are felled; 2 so the holy seed is its stock.”

Matthew 24:22Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 65:2-8

The Conversion of the Gentiles; The Wickedness of the Jews; The Rejection of the Jews. ( b. c. 706.) 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars… Read the whole commentary →

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