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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. …
With long life will I satisfy him, and shew him my salvation.
He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.
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:
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.
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 h…
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