Isaiah 65:8-12 WEB

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

CHAPTER XXVA LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENTIsaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1-24WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel’s Redemption had reached its summit and its end. The glory of Zion in sight, the full programme of prophecy owned, the arrival of the Divine Saviour hailed in the urgency of His feeling for His people, in the sufficiency of His might to save them, -what more, we ask, can the prophecy have to give us? Why does it not... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

CHAPTER 65 Jehovah’s Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1-8 ) 2. The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9-10 ) 3. The judgment of the apostates (Isaiah 65:11-12 ) 4. The blessings of Jehovah’s servants and the contrast (Isaiah 65:13-16 ) 5. The glories and blessings of the future (Isaiah 65:17-25 ) The first eight verses give a description of the iniquities practiced by apostate Israel. Judgment will... read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:8

65:8 Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a {m} blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.(m) That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:10

65:10 And {n} Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.(n) Which was a plentiful place in Judea to feed sheep, as Achor was for cattle. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:11

65:11 But ye [are] they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that {o} troop, and that furnish the drink offering to that number.(o) By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols of whom they thought they could never have enough. read more

John Calvin

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:12

65:12 Therefore will I {p} number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I {q} spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose [that] in which I delighted not.(p) Seeing you cannot number your gods, I will number you with the sword.(q) By my prophets, whom you would not obey. read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

MEETING OF THE AGES We are drawing to the end of the present, and the opening of the Millennial age. The prophet’s eye rests on the time when Israel is back in her land, the majority still unconverted to Christ and worshiping in a restored temple. There is a faithful remnant waiting for Him, though enduring the persecution of the false christ. This persecution may often be felt at the hands of their own brethren after the flesh. These facts must be assumed in the interpretation of these... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 65:8-10

With an eye to this gracious promise, the Holy Ghost here sets forth, under the similitude of a poor apparently dry and fruitless vine, how the mercy for Israel is preserved, and how at length it shall be accomplished. To all human observation, the vine brings forth nothing; but there is one who looks on and knows all, who takes notice of a cluster in which the new wine is found. My beloved, (said the Church, speaking of Jesus) is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of Engedi,... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-12

These verses contain an awful confirmation of what every day's experience continues to prove, that all are not Israel, which are of Israel, Romans 9:6 . In every Church, under every ordinance, the same word, the same gospel, how often is it found, that what becomes to some the savour of life unto life, to others, becomes the savour of death unto death! what quickens some, kills others! Hence the Apostle declares himself and his few faithful companions to be in one and the same moment a savour... read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:8

Whole. The good grain is preserved amid the general corruption. (Haydock) --- A few of the Jews were chosen to believe in Christ. read more

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:8

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:10

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:11

Geneva Study Bible - Isaiah 65:12

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-25

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 65:8-10

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Isaiah 65:11-12

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:8

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