Isaiah 65:22
No longer will they build a house and another live in it; they will not plant, and another eat; 1 for as the days of trees will be the days of my people. My chosen will fully outlive the work of their hands. 1
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21They will build houses and inhabit them, and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 1
Cross References
Genesis 5:27Methuselah lived 969 years. Then he died.
Psalms 21:4He asked you for life; you gave it to him; 1 you gave him long days forever and ever. 1
Psalms 92:12The righteous will flourish like the palm tree; 1 they will grow like a cedar in Lebanon. 1
Isaiah 65:9I will bring descendants from Jacob, and from Judah ones who will possess my mountains. 1 My chosen ones will possess the land, and my servants will live there. 1
Revelation 20:3He threw him into the bottomless pit. He shut it and sealed it over him. This was so that he would not deceive the nations anymore until the thousand years were over. After that, he must be set free for a short amount of 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 →