Isaiah 65:22
They shall not build, and another, dwell, They shall not plant, and, another, eat,—For as the days of a tree, shall be the days of my people, And, the work of their own hands, shall my chosen ones, use to the full:
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
21Then shall they build houses and dwell in them,—And plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them;
Cross References
Genesis 5:27and all the days of Methuselah were, nine hundred and sixty-nine years,—and he died.
Psalms 21:4Life, he asked of thee, Thou hast given it him, length of days, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Psalms 92:12The righteous, like the palm-tree, shall thrive, Like the cedar in Lebanon, shall he grow;
Isaiah 65:9Therefore will I bring forth Out of Jacob, a seed, and Out of Judah, an inheritor of my mountains, That my chosen ones may inherit it, And, my servants, dwell there;
Revelation 20:3and cast him into the abyss, and fastened and sealed [it] over him,—that he might not deceive the nations any more, until the thousand years, should be ended: after these, must he be loosed for a short 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 →