Isaiah 65:13 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews that believed and of those that still persisted in unbelief, are set the one over?against the other, as life and death, good and evil, the blessing and the curse. I. Here is the fearful doom of those that persisted in their idolatry after the deliverance out of Babylon, and in infidelity after the preaching of the gospel of Christ. Observe, 1. What the doom is that is here threatened: ?I will number you to the sword as sheep for... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus saith the Lord God ,.... This being the case, the following contrast is formed between those that believed in Christ, and those that rejected him: behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry : which has been verified in a literal sense; for the Christians, the Lord's righteous servants, as the Targum in the several clauses calls them, were, as Eusebius F5 Hist. Eccl. I. 3. c. 5. p. 75. relates, by a divine warning, directed to leave Jerusalem, before the... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:13

My servants shalt eat, but ye shall be hungry - Rabbi Joachan ben Zachai said in a parable: There was a king who invited his servants, but set them no time to come to the feast. The prudent and wary who were among them adorned themselves; and, standing at the gate of the king's house, said, Is there any thing lacking in the king's house? i.e., Is there any work to be done in it? But the foolish which were among them went, and mocking said, When shall the feast be, in which there is no labor?... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

A MIXTURE OF THREATS WITH PROMISES . The prophet returns, in the main, to his former attitude, and resumes his denunciations ( Isaiah 65:11 , Isaiah 65:12 ); but, with Isaiah 65:13 , he begins to intermingle promises of favour to God's servants with threats against the rebellious, and finally (in Isaiah 65:16 ) turns wholly towards the side of grace and favour, announcing the coming of a time when "the former troubles" will be altogether "forgotten," and the kingdom of truth... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

The doom of the idolaters. I. THE SINS . On the one hand it is the forsaking of Jehovah, the forgetting of his holy mountain. It is the keeping aloof from the true worship celebrated on Mount Moriah. But the heart of man knows no deeper need than that of worship; and the setting of the tables before the images of heathen deities ( lectisternia ) witnesses, even as an aberration and a caricature, to that yearning for communion with the Divine which true religion and revelation... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13

Therefore thus saith the Lord God ; rather, thus saith the Lord Jehovah (comp. Isaiah 7:7 ; Isaiah 25:8 ; Isaiah 28:16 ; Isaiah 30:15 ; Isaiah 40:10 ; Isaiah 48:16 ; Isaiah 49:22 ; I. 4, 5, 7, 9; Isaiah 52:4 ; Isaiah 56:8 ; Isaiah 61:1 , etc.). My servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry , etc. This entire series of contrasts may be understood in two ways; literally, of the two classes of exiles, the religious and the irreligious; metaphorically, of God's servants... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13-15

The contrasts of the religious with the irreligious life. The prophet notices three main contrasts. I. GOD 'S SERVANTS ARE FED WITH A FOOD THAT SATISFIES ; HIS ADVERSARIES ARE TORMENTED BY A CEASELESS CRAVING . Man is so constituted that nothing short of his highest good contents him. Earthly blessings, health, wealth, success, fame, power, glory, leave a void in the heart which nothing earthly can fill up. The worldling is always dissatisfied, always... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13-15

Contrasted lots of those who serve God and those who forsake him. This passage should be compared with Luke 6:20-26 . "The blessedness of those that serve God, and the woeful condition of those that rebel against him, are here set, the one over against the other, that they may serve as a foil to each other." I. CONTRAST THE TWO KINDS OF LIFE . The man who fears God and sets his heart upon serving him, finds the promises fulfilled—"Verily thou shalt be filled;" "None of them... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:13

Therefore, thus saith the Lord God - The design of this verse is to show what would be the difference between those who kept and those who forsook his commandments. The one would be objects of his favor, and have abundance; the other would be objects of his displeasure, and be subjected to the evils of poverty, grief, and want.My servants shall eat - Shall have abundance. They shall be objects of my favor.But ye - Ye who revolt from me, and who worship idols.Shall be hungry - Shall be subjected... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:13-15

Isaiah 65:13-15. Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry, &c. I will make a great difference between my faithful servants and such unbelievers as you are. This promise the Lord fulfilled in a remarkable manner before the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans. In consequence of the direction given by Christ to his disciples, (Matthew 26:15,) when they observed the Roman armies approaching toward Jerusalem, they left the devoted city and fled to the mountains, an... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:13

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-16

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13-15

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:13-15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:13

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:13-15

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