Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
They shall not labor in vain "My chosen shall not labor in vain" - I remove bechirai , my elect, from the end of the twenty-second to the beginning of the twenty-third verse, on the authority of the Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, and a MS.; contrary to the division in the Masoretic text. - L. The Septuagint is beautiful: My chosen shall not labor in vain, neither shall they beget children for the curse; for the seed is blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them."
Nor bring forth for trouble "Neither shall they generate a short-lived race" - labbehalah , in festinationem , "what shall soon hasten away." for a curse, Sept. They seem to have read lealah . - Grotius. But Psalms 78:33 both justifies and explains the word here: -
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"And he consumed their days in vanity;
And their years in haste."
, say the Septuagint. Jerome on this place of Isaiah explains it to the same purpose: " , hoc est, ut esse desistant ."
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Isaiah 65:23:
Romans 11:27
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