Isaiah 65:20-21 BSB

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:21

They shall build houses, and inhabit them . The curse pronounced on apostasy in Deuteronomy 28:30 shall no more rest on God's people. They shall have the fruition of their labours. No enemy shall be able to deprive them of their crops and houses. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:20

There shall be no more thence - The Septuagint, the Syriac, and the Vulgate, read this, ‘There shall not be there.’ The change requires the omission of a single letter in the present Hebrew text, and the sense seems to demand it. The design of the prophet here is, to describe the times of happiness and prosperity which would succeed the calamities under which the nation had been suffering. This he does by a great variety of images, all denoting substantially the same thing. In Isaiah 65:17, the... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:21

And they shall build houses - (See the notes at Isaiah 62:8-9). read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:20

Isaiah 65:20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, &c. There shall he no untimely or premature deaths, either of infants and children, who do not grow up to man’s estate, or of old men, who do not live out the full term of life. For the child shall die, &c. This should rather be translated, For he that dies a hundred years old shall die a child: and the sinner that dies a hundred years old shall be (that is, shall be deemed) accursed, or cut off by the justice of... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:21-23

Isaiah 65:21-23. They shall build houses and inhabit them The prophet here describes another privilege of the church in these happy days. They shall enjoy blessings the very reverse of the curses denounced on the disobedient, Deuteronomy 28:30. They shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them. See note on Isaiah 62:8. They shall not plant and another eat Which might happen, either through their enemies seizing the fruits of the trees they planted, or through their own premature... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

A new creation (65:17-25)Israel’s condition in the time of the prophet is then contrasted with conditions in the new Jerusalem, the kingdom of the Messiah. That kingdom is not an improved version of the old Israelite kingdom, but is something entirely new. It is a new creation, where the quality of life will be different from that of the present world. Sorrow will be replaced by rejoicing. Life will not be cut short except where God acts in judgment (17-20).In the new creation people will have... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 65:20

There. Some codices read "And there". of days: i.e. of a few days. child shall die = youth may die: i.e. neither early death, nor premature decay. accursed = cut off. Compare Psalms 101:8 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Isaiah 65:21

they shall build, &c. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 26:16 . Deuteronomy 28:41 ). read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 65:20

Isaiah 65:20. There shall be no more thence an infant of days, &c.— No more shall there be an infant short-lived; nor an old man who hath not fulfilled his days: for he that dieth at an hundred years, shall die a boy; and the sinner that dieth at an hundred years shall be deemed accursed. Lowth. The prophet in this verse promises longevity as a necessary adjunct to the felicity of the state which he is describing; and as a proof of this longevity, he mentions, that he who shall die by any... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:20

20. The longevity of men in the first age of the world shall be enjoyed again. thence—from that time forward. infant of days—that is, an infant who shall only complete a few days; short-lived. filled . . . days—None shall die without attaining a full old age. child . . . die . . . hundred years—that is, "he that dieth an hundred years old shall die a mere child" [LOWTH]. sinner . . . hundred . . . be accursed—"The sinner that dieth at an hundred years shall be deemed accursed," that is, his... read more