Isaiah 65:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ 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. ”

Isaiah 65:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But be ye glad and rejoice - (See the notes at Isaiah 51:11 ). Forever - It is not to be momentary happiness - like a bright morning that is soon overcast with clouds. The joy of God’s peopl...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

for ever. Chaldee Targum renders it "in the world of worlds": i.e. the most glorious world.
Isaiah 65:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

18. But rejoice ye and be glad for ever. He exhorts believers to rejoice, in such a manner as they ought, on account of such a benefit bestowed by God. And this was added for the sake of amplif...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. Rejoice for ever in that which I create "Exult in the age to come whic...
Isaiah 65:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. Rejoice forever (in that) which I create: for, behold, I create Jerus...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

I create Jerusalem... — From the prophet’s stand-point, as elsewhere, both in 1 and 2 Isaiah, the earthly city, transformed and transfigured, occupies the central place in the new creation. In the...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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;...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

But be you glad, and rejoice for ever in that which I create ,.... This may refer either to persons converted, both at the beginning of the Gospel, and in the latter day, whether Jews or Gentiles; w...
Isaiah 65:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 18. But be glad and rejoice for ever. ] What can ye be less th...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Predictions of Happiness. B. C. 706. 17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new ea...
Isaiah 65:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

You that are my people, though you cannot rejoice with that degree of joy that attendeth a present fruition of good; yet be glad, and rejoice with the rejoicing of hope, for the thing is certain wh...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - 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...
Isaiah 65:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The New Heaven and the New Earth
Isaiah 65:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 5:16 ; Isaiah 12:4-6 ; Isaiah 42:10-12 ; Isaiah 44:23 ; Isaiah 49:13 ; Isaiah 51:11 ; Isaiah 52:7-10 ; Isaiah 66:10-14 ; Psalms 67:3-5 ; Psalms 96:10-13 ; Psalms 98:1-9 ;...
Isaiah 65:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

You — The church, as well under the gospel, as under the law.

Isaiah 65:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Isaiah 65:18 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Isaiah 65:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Isaiah 65:18 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Isaiah 65:18 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Isaiah 65:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Isaiah 65:18 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 65:18 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Isaiah 65:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Isaiah 65:18 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Isaiah 65:18 - The Biblical Illustrator

Isaiah 65:18 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Isaiah 65:18 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Isaiah 65:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 65:18 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes