Isaiah 65:23

THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN, NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE; FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM. _ They shall not ... bring forth for trouble_ - literally, for terror ( LABEHAALAAH (H928)); i:e., 'They shall not bring forth children for a sudden death' (Leviticus 26:16; Jeremiah 15:8). FOR THEY (ARE) THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD - (Isaiah 61:9.) AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM - (HOSEA 9:12 _ .) 'Their offspring shall be with themselves'_ (Maurer); not...

23._They shall not toil in vain. _He enumerates other kinds of blessings which God promises to the kingdom of Christ; for, although God always blessed his people, yet the blessings were in some measure suspended till the coming of Christ, in whom was displayed full and complete happiness. In a word, both Jews and Gentiles shall be happy, in all respects, under the reign of Christ. Now, as it is a token of God’s wrath and curse when we obtain no advantage front our labor, so, on the other hand, it is a token of blessing when we clearly see the fruit of our labor. For this reason he says that they who shall have returned from captivity, in order that they may obtain a true and complete deliverance, shall not spend their labor in vain or lose their pains. The Law threatens the death of relatives, destructive wars, losses of property, and terror in their hearts. (Leviticus 26:22;...

17-25 In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall be no more remembered or renewed. The approaching happy state of the church is described under a variety of images. He shall be thought to die in his youth, and for his sins, who only lives to the age of a hundred years. The event alone can determine what is meant; but it is plain that Christianity, if universal, would so do away violence and evil, as greatly to lengthen life. In those happy days, all God's people shall enjoy the fruit of their labours. Nor will children then be the trouble of their parents, or suffer trouble themselves. The evil dispositions of sinners shall be completely moritified; all shall live in harmony. Thus the church on earth shall be full of happiness, like heaven. This prophecy a...

Verse Isaiah 65:23. _THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN_ - "My chosen shall not labour in vain"] I remove בחירי _bechirai, my elect_, from the end of the twenty-second to the beginning of the twenty-third verse, on the authority of the _Septuagint, Syriac_, and _Vulgate_, and a MS.; contrary to the division in the Masoretic text. - L. The _Septuagint_ is beautiful: My chosen shall not labour in vain, neither shall they beget children for the curse; for the seed is blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them." _NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE_ - "Neither shall they generate a short-lived race"] לבהלה _labbehalah, in festinationem_, "what shall soon hasten away." Εις καταραν _for a curse, Sept_. They seem to have read לאלה _lealah_. - Grotius. But...

THEY SHALL NOT LABOR IN VAIN - That is, either because their land shall be unfruitful, or because others shall plunder them. NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE - Lowth renders this, ‘Neither shall they generate a short-lived race.’ Noyes, ‘Nor bring forth children for an early death.’ The Septuagint renders it, Οὐδὲ τεκνοποιήσουσιν εἰς κατάραν _Oude_ _teknopoiēsousin_ _eis_ _kataran_ - ‘Nor shall they bring forth children for a curse.’ The Chaldee, ‘Nor shall they nourish them for death.’ There can be no doubt that this refers to their posterity, and that the sense is, that they should not be the parents of children who would be subject to an early death or to a curse. The word rendered here ‘bring forth’ (ילדוּ _yēl__e__dû_) is a word that uniformly means to bear, to bring

SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS THE JUST MEED OF THEIR SINS. God's mercy is such that it even overflows upon those who are outside the covenant (Isaiah 65:1). It has been offered to Israel, but Israel has rejected it. Their rebellion, their idolatries, and their pride have caused, and must continue to cause, their punishment ...

THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN,.... As they do, who build houses, and enemies come and turn them out of them, and dwell in them themselves; or who plant vineyards, and sow their fields, and strangers come and devour them; or they are smitten with blasting and mildew: NOR BRING FORTH FOR TROUBLE; for death, as the Targum; or for a curse, as the Septuagint: the tense is, they shall not beget and bring forth children, that shall immediately die by some distemper or another, or be taken off by famine, sword, or pestilence, to the great grief and trouble of their parents; but these shall live, and outlive their parents, so that their death will never be a trouble to them: FOR THEY ARE THE SEED OF THE BLESSED OF THE LORD, AND THEIR OFFSPRING WITH THEM; or, "they are a seed, the blessed of the Lord" i; or, "they are the seed blessed of God", or "the Lord", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic...

CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. _The judgment of the apostates (Isaiah 65:11) _ 4. _The blessings of Jehovah's servants and the contrast (Isaiah 65:13) _ 5. _The glories and blessings of the future (Isaiah 65:17) _ The first eight verses give a description of the iniquities practiced by apostate Israel. Judgment will overtake them in the day of veng

AN EXPANSION OF THE THEME OF ISAIAH 65:13. They may build houses and plant vineyards, certain that they will live to enjoy them. Their lives shall be as the life of a tree, long, and undisturbed by calamity. They shall not bring up (so read for forth) children only to see them perish: their children and they alike are a race blessed by Yahweh. Their prayers shall be answered even while they are being uttered. Even the beasts shall lose their redness of tooth and claw (_cf._ Isaiah 11:6). ISAIAH 65:25. AND DUST... MEAT: a glossator, mindful of Genesis 3:14, has excepted the serpent from the general felicity....

THEY SHALL NOT LABOUR IN VAIN. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 28:41, reversed). Compare Leviticus 26:16. App-92....