Isaiah 62:8

Yahweh has sworn by his right hand and by the arm of his strength, 1 “Surely I will no longer give your grain as food for your enemies. 1 Foreigners will not drink your new wine, for which you have worked. 1

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The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:

In Context

7Do not allow him to rest until he reestablishes 1 Jerusalem and makes it a praise on earth. 1

9For those who harvest the grain will eat it and praise Yahweh, 1 and those who pick the grapes will drink the wine in the courts of my holy sanctuary.” 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:16—if you do these things, then I will do this to you: I will inflict terror on you, diseases and fever that will destroy the eyes and will drain away your life. You will plant your seeds for nothing, because your enemies will eat their produce.

Deuteronomy 28:31Your ox will be slain before your eyes, but you will not eat its meat; your donkey will be forcibly taken away from before you and will not be restored to you. Your sheep will be given to your enemies, and you will have no one to aid you.

Deuteronomy 32:40For I lift up my hand to heaven 1 and say, 'As I live forever, I will act. 1

Isaiah 1:7Your country is ruined; your cities are burned; 1 your fields—in your presence, strangers are destroying them— 1 abandoned devastation, overthrown by strangers. 1

Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1

Jeremiah 5:17So your harvest will be consumed, your sons and daughters also, and your food. 1 They will eat your flocks and cattle; they will eat the fruit from your vines and fig trees. 1 They will beat down with a sword your fortified cities that you trusted in.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 62:7-10

The Prosperity of the Church. ( b. c. 706.) 6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord , keep not silence, 7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth. 8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:… Read the whole commentary →

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