Isaiah 65:23
They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah [are] they, And their offspring with them.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
24And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
Cross References
Genesis 17:7'And I have established My covenant between Me and thee, and thy seed after thee, to their generations, for a covenant age-during, to become God to thee, and to thy seed after thee;
Leviticus 26:20and consumed hath been your strength in vain, and your land doth not give her produce, and the tree of the land doth not give its fruit.
Leviticus 26:29'And ye have eaten the flesh of your sons; even flesh of your daughters ye do eat.
Deuteronomy 28:38'Much seed thou dost take out into the field, and little thou dost gather in, for the locust doth consume it;
Job 21:8Their seed is established, Before their face with them, And their offspring before their eyes.
Isaiah 49:4And I said, 'For a vain thing I laboured, For emptiness and vanity my power I consumed, But my judgment [is] with Jehovah, And my wage with my God.
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 →