Isaiah 65:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor comee into mind. ”

• Isaiah 65:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  For behold - The idea in this verse is, that there should be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were to be made. I create new heavens - Calamity and punishment in th...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For, behold, I create (y) new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. (y) I will so altar and change the state of my church, that it will seem to dwell i...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Coming Good Fortune of the Righteous. Yahweh again is the speaker. My people shall rejoice in the satisfaction of their wants when ye, rebellious ones, are wailing in your need. Nought shall be...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  new heavens, &c. : i.e. new, in respect to the old. Not the "new" of 2 Peter 3:13 , or Revelation 21:1 . Note the contrast of this with the only two references to the history of Revelation 21...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  17. For, lo, I will create new heavens and a new earth. By these metaphors he promises a remarkable change of affairs; as if God had said that he has both the inclination and the power not o...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 1021 THE NEW HEAVENS AND THE NEW EARTH Isaiah 65:17-18 . Behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. But be ye glad and...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. I create new heavens and a new earth - This has been variously understood. Some Jews and...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  For, behold, I create, &c.— Vitringa observes, that these expressions signify a new and better form of religion, to be introduced into the church, the old and inferior one being abolished. It i...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. For, behold, I create new heavens, and a new earth. As Caleb inherited the same land...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglecte...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Behold, I create new heavens... — The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament — verbally in 2 Peter 3:13 ; Revelation 21:1 , substantially in the “restitution of all things” ( Acts 3...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemp...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  a New Earth for God's Servants Isaiah 65:13-25 Notice the wide difference that religion makes to the soul. The children of God are secured against the evils which visit all others. They eat;...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebell...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  These blessed promises are fulfilled in a gracious sense, when sinners are made new creatures in Christ Jesus; and more fulfilled in that upper and brighter world, which John saw in a vision; Revela...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth ,.... This prophecy began to have its accomplishment in the first times of the Gospel, when through the preaching of it there was a new face of thin...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. Ver. 17. For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. ] I am making of a new wo...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  For behold, I create new heavens , &c. I will tell you yet a more admirable thing: I am about wholly to change the state, not only of my people, freeing them from the afflictions and troubles by...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Predictions of Happiness. B. C. 706.       17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new ea...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  For, behold, I will tell you yet a more admirable thing, I am about wholly to alter and change the state not only of my people, who are now afflicted, restoring them to a more lightsome state, more...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  God's Chosen Ones Will Receive Great Blessing, But It Will Not Be Shared By These Who Have Been Described. And God Will Create A New Heaven and A New Earth, and A New Jerusalem. The Old Will Have Pa...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Scofield Reference Notes

  behold Verse 17 ( Isaiah 65:17 ) looks beyond the kingdom-age to the new heavens and the new earth (see refs. At "create"), but verses 18-25 ( Isaiah 65:18-25 ) describe the kingdom-age itself...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Isaiah 65:4 . Which remain among the graves. The LXX add, dream. Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth “New heavens and a new earth,” “New heavens and a new earth,” i. a new universe, Hebrew having no single word for the Cosmos. The phrase sums...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  SECTION XI .— GOD 'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES ' PRAYER ( Isaiah 65:1-23 .) EXPOSITION Isaiah 65:1-23 ISRAEL 'S SUFFERINGS THE JUST MEED OF THEIR SINS . God's mercy is...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  For, behold, I create new heavens, the plural being applied to the abode of the blessed in many passages of the Bible, and a new earth, Cf Revelation 21; and the former, that which was here infes...

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Peter 3:13 ; Isaiah 51:16 ; Isaiah 66:22 ; Jeremiah 3:16 ; Revelation 21:1-5

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• Isaiah 65:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  I create — I am about wholly to change the state not only of my people, but to bring a new face upon the world, which shall abide until a new heavens and earth appear, in which shall dwell nothing...

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