Isaiah 65:8-16

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:8-10

This is expounded by St. Paul, Rom. 11:1-5, where, when, upon occasion of the rejection of the Jews, it is asked, Hath God then cast away his people? he answers, No; for at this time there is a remnant according to the election of grace. This prophecy has reference to that distinguished remnant. When that hypocritical nation is to be destroyed God will separate and secure to himself some from among them; some of the Jews shall be brought to embrace the Christian faith, shall be added to the... read more

Matthew Henry

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 65:8

Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster ,.... Now, lest the truly godly and gracious among these people should be distressed at such denunciations of wrath and destruction, it is suggested that these few, this remnant according to the election of grace, should be saved from the general ruin; as when men are about to cut down a vine, or pluck it up, or prune the unfruitful branches of it, a single cluster of grapes is observed upon it, in which new wine is supposed to be:... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:9

And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob ,.... Jerom says most understand this of Christ; and who indeed is called the seed of the woman, the seed of Abraham, the seed of David, and sprang from Jacob or Israel, and came out of the tribe of Judah; and may be fitly signified by the cluster, in which new wine and a blessing were, which "seed" here is explanative of; since the clusters of all divine perfections, of all the blessings of grace, and of all the promises of it, are in him: and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:10

And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks ,.... This was a champaign country about Joppa and Lydda, in which were rich pastures for herds and flocks, 1 Chronicles 27:29 , it seems to be a prophecy of the conversion of some in those parts, which had its accomplishment in the times of the apostles, Acts 9:35 , here Christ had his sheep, and here was a fold for them; or, however, this may be expressive of the word and ordinances, which are like Sharon, green and fat pastures, for the flocks of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:11

But ye are they that forsake the Lord ,.... Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and rejecters of the Messiah, who turned away from him, would not hear his doctrine, nor submit to his ordinances; they forsook the worship of the Lord, as the Targum; yea, some that professed to be his disciples, and followed him for a while, left him, and walked no more with him, John 6:60 , that forget my holy mountain ; Mount Zion, the city of the living God, the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:12

Therefore will I number you to the sword ,.... There is an elegancy in the expression, alluding to Meni, that number, they furnished a drink offering for, or trusted in; and since they did, God would number them, or appoint a number of them to the sword; or suffer them to be slain in great numbers, even from one end of their land to another, Jeremiah 12:12 , they should be numbered and told out, or care taken that none of them should escape the sword of the Romans, or not be taken by them:... 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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:14

Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart ,.... The songs of electing, redeeming, and calling grace, with which they come to Zion now, and will hereafter; having their hearts filled with joy unutterable, and full of glory, under a sense of the great things which God has done for them: but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit ; under the sore judgments of God upon them, the sword and famine; more especially during the siege of Jerusalem, and when... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:15

And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen ,.... Execrable and abominable to them, as the name of a Jew is to this day, and in all places; for their unbelief and impenitence, for their perfidy and insincerity, for their tricking and covetousness, and other crimes they are addicted to; see Jeremiah 24:9 , for the Lord God shall slay them ; by the sword of the Romans, and by his judgments, which continue upon them; the Targum says, with the second death; and so Jarchi... read more

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