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Isaiah 65:23
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21 aThey shall build houses and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. 
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
They shall not plant and aanother eat;
For bas the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people,
And cMy elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. 
23 They shall not labor in vain,
aNor bring forth children for trouble;
For bthey shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord,
And their offspring with them. 
24 “It shall come to pass
That abefore they call, I will answer;
And while they are still speaking, I will bhear. 
25 The awolf and the lamb shall feed together,
The lion shall eat straw like the ox,
bAnd dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”
Says the Lord. 
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Isaiah 65:23

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 ."




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