Isaiah 65:21

My people will build houses and then live in them. They will plant vineyards and then eat grapes from those vineyards.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

In Context

20No child will die when it is still an infant; all people will live until they are very old. People will consider that anyone who is 100 years old is still young; they will consider that anyone who dies who is younger than that has been cursed.

22As for the houses that they build, no one will take those houses away from them and live in them. No one will take a vineyard away from its owner. My chosen people will live a long time, like trees do, and they will enjoy what they have accomplished— the houses that they have built and the crops that they have planted.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:16these are the things that I will do to you: I will suddenly cause there to be disasters that will ruin you. You will have diseases that cannot be cured, and fevers that will cause you to become blind and will slowly kill you. It will be useless for you to plant seeds, because your enemies will eat the crops that grow.

Judges 6:1Again the Israelis did things that Yahweh said were very evil. So he allowed the people of Midian to conquer them and rule them for seven years.

Isaiah 37:30Then I said to Hezekiah, ‘This will prove to you that what I said will happen: “This year, you(pl) will eat only the crops that grow by themselves, and next year the same thing will happen. But in the third year you will plant crops and harvest them; you will take care of your vineyards and eat the grapes.

Jeremiah 31:4And now I tell you, my Israeli people whom I love [MET], that I will cause you to be a nation again. You will joyfully dance as you play your tambourines.

Amos 9:14I will cause you, my Israeli people, to prosper again. You will rebuild your towns and live in them. You will plant vineyards and then drink the wine made from the grapes that grows in them.

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 →

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