Isaiah 65:22
They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree [are] the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
21And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
Cross References
Genesis 5:27And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth.
Psalms 21:4Life he hath asked from Thee, Thou hast given to him — length of days, Age-during — and for ever.
Psalms 92:12The righteous as a palm-tree flourisheth, As a cedar in Lebanon he groweth.
Isaiah 65:9And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there.
Revelation 20:3and he cast him to the abyss, and did shut him up, and put a seal upon him, that he may not lead astray the nations any more, till the thousand years may be finished; and after these it behoveth him to be loosed a little 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 →