Isaiah 65:25

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

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together ,.... Or, "as one" F11 כאחד "sicut unus", Montanus, Musculus, Gataker. : as if they were one, of the same kind and nature, and lived upon the same food. The people of God are comparable to lambs, for their harmlessness and innocence; and wicked men to wolves, for their fierceness and cruelty; but, by the grace of God, the latter become as mild and as gentle as the former, and live upon the same spiritual food, and join with them in attendance... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb, etc. - The glorious salvation which Jesus Christ procures is for men, and for men only: fallen spirits must still abide under the curse: "He took not on him the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham." Shall feed together - For כאחד keechad , as one, an ancient MS. has יחדו yachdav , together; the usual word, to the same sense, but very different in the letters. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate seem to agree with the MSS. - L. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

A PROMISE OF NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH . The final answer of God to the complaint and prayer of his people ( Isaiah 64:1-12 .) is now given. The entire existing state of things is to pass away. God will create a new heaven and a new earth, and place his people therein; and the old conditions will be all changed, and the old grounds of complaint disappear. In the "new Jerusalem" there will be no sorrow, neither "weeping" nor "crying" ( Isaiah 65:19 ); life will be greatly... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

The new creation. It is difficult to harmonize the various passages of Scripture which touch on "the new creation." In one place ( Acts 3:21 ) it is called an ἀποκατάτασις , in another ( Matthew 19:23 ) a παιγγενεσία . Sometimes its scene appears to be the present world purified ( Isaiah 2:2-4 ); sometimes an entirely new world created for the habitation of God's people ( Isaiah 65:17 , Isaiah 65:18 ). Perhaps the best explanation is that of Delitzsch, that there are to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:17-25

The new creation. It seems that the leading thought of the prophet is the transformation of nature in harmony with the changed nature of man. Its grandeur needs not to be pointed out. Ordinarily, indeed, we think of man's dependence on nature. If the thought be pushed to its limits, it ends in materialism. Spiritual religion, on the contrary, sees in the changes of nature a human pathos; its waste and desolation the effect of human sin, of violated Divine laws; its flourishing aspect and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together (comp. Isaiah 11:6-8 ; Hosea 2:18 ). The portraiture here is far less elaborate than in the earlier chapter, to which the present passage may be regarded as a refer-once. (For the sense in which the entire picture is to be understood, see the comment upon Isaiah 11:6-9 ). Dust shall be the serpent's meat. Here we have a new feature, not contained in the earlier description. Serpents shall become harmless, anal instead of preying upon... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:25

The wolf and the lamb shall feed together - (See the notes at Isaiah 11:0.)And the lion shall eat straw - Shall eat hay or provender like the ox. The food of the lion now is flesh. Changes shall take place as great as if his nature were changed, and he should graze with the herds of the field. See a full illustration of this sentiment from the classic writors in the notes at Isaiah 11:6.Like the bullock - Or the ox - the cattle that herd together - for so the Hebrew word (בקר bâqâr) means.... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:25

Isaiah 65:25. The wolf and the lamb shall feed together Concerning the metaphorical sense of these expressions see chap. 11:7, and 35:9. But since the renovation here spoken of extends to the whole creation, the words may imply the correcting the noxious qualities of fierce or venomous creatures. 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

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