John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:22
They shall not build, and another inhabit ,.... As the Canaanites did, whose houses the Israelites inhabited; but they shall inhabit the houses they have built, and shall not be dispossessed by an enemy: they shall not plant, and another eat ; the fruit of the vines, olives, fig trees, or others, planted by them: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people ; not as of a leaf which falls every year, but as of a tree, and as of such that last long, as oaks, cedars, and the... read more
Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25
If these promises were in part fulfilled when the Jews, after their return out of captivity, were settled in peace in their own land and brought as it were into a new world, yet they were to have their full accomplishment in the gospel church, militant first and at length triumphant. The Jerusalem that is from above is free and is the mother of us all. In the graces and comforts which believers have in and from Christ we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. It is in the gospel that... read more