Isaiah 65:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

Isaiah 65:22 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 92:12-14
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …
Psalms 91:16
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
Psalms 21:4
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
Isaiah 65:15
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
Isaiah 65:9
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 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 ha…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 22)

22. They shall not experience the curse pronounced (Le 26:16; De 28:30). tree--among the most long-lived of objects in nature. They shall live as long as the trees they “plant” (compare Is 61:3, end of verse; Psa 92:12). enjoy--Hebrew, “consume,” “wear out”; they shall live to enjoy the last of it (Is 62:9).