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Selected Verse: Isaiah 65:18 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 65:18 |
Strong Concordance |
But be ye glad [07797] and rejoice [01523] for ever [05703] in that which I create [01254]: for, behold, I create [01254] Jerusalem [03389] a rejoicing [01525], and her people [05971] a joy [04885]. |
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King James |
But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| rejoice for ever . . . Jerusalem-- (Isa 51:11). "Everlasting joy . . . Zion." Spiritually (Th1 5:16). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
But be ye glad and rejoice - (See the notes at Isa 51:11).
Forever - It is not to be momentary happiness - like a bright morning that is soon overcast with clouds. The joy of God's people is to endure for ever, and they shall have ceaseless cause of praise and thanksgiving.
I create Jerusalem a rejoicing - A source of rejoicing; or a place of rejoicing.
And her people a joy - That is, in themselves joyful, and a source of joy to all others. The idea is, that the church would be a place of the highest happiness, and that they who were redeemed would have occasion of perpetual joy. The Saviour did not come to minister gloom, nor is the true effect of religion to make his people melancholy. Religion produces seriousness; but seriousness is not inconsistent with permanent happiness. Religion produces deep thought and soberness of deportment and conversation; but this is not inconsistent with a heart at ease, or with a good conscience, or with permanent joy. Religion fills the mind with hope of eternal life; and the highest happiness which the soul can know must be in connection with the prospect of unchanging blessedness beyond the grave. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| You - The church, as well under the gospel, as under the law. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Rejoice for ever in that which I create "Exult in the age to come which I create" - So in Isa 9:5 אבי עד abi ad, πατηρ του μελλοντος αιωνος, "the father of the age to come," Sept. See Bishop Chandler, Defence of Christianity, p. 136. |
16 Rejoice [5463] evermore [3842].
11 Therefore the redeemed [06299] of the LORD [03068] shall return [07725], and come [0935] with singing [07440] unto Zion [06726]; and everlasting [05769] joy [08057] shall be upon their head [07218]: they shall obtain [05381] gladness [08342] and joy [08057]; and sorrow [03015] and mourning [0585] shall flee away [05127].
11 Therefore the redeemed [06299] of the LORD [03068] shall return [07725], and come [0935] with singing [07440] unto Zion [06726]; and everlasting [05769] joy [08057] shall be upon their head [07218]: they shall obtain [05381] gladness [08342] and joy [08057]; and sorrow [03015] and mourning [0585] shall flee away [05127].
5 For every battle [05430] of the warrior [05431] is with confused noise [07494], and garments [08071] rolled [01556] in blood [01818]; but this shall be with burning [08316] and fuel [03980] of fire [0784].