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title: "Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible -  Isaiah 65"
description: "CHAPTER 65   :-. GOD"
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CHAPTER 65

. GOD'S REPLY
IN JUSTIFICATION OF
HIS DEALINGS
WITH ISRAEL.
In , their plea was, "we are all Thy people." In
answer, God declares that *others* (Gentiles) would be taken
into covenant with Him, while His ancient people would be rejected.
The Jews were slow to believe this; hence Paul says () that Isaiah was "very bold" in advancing so
unpopular a sentiment; he implies what Paul states ([Romans 2:28](../../../kjv/romans/2/28);
[Romans 9:6](../../../kjv/romans/9/6); [Romans 9:7](../../../kjv/romans/9/7);
[Romans 11:1-31](../../../kjv/romans/11/1-31)), that "they
are not *all* (in opposition to the Jews' plea, [Romans 11:1-45](../../../kjv/romans/11/1-45)) Israel which are of Israel." God's reason for so
severely dealing with Israel is not changeableness in Him, but sin in
them ([Isaiah 65:2-7](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/2-7)). Yet
the whole nation shall not be destroyed, but only the wicked; a
remnant shall be saved ([Isaiah 65:8-10](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/8-10);
[Isaiah 65:11-16](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/11-16)). There shall
be, finally, universal blessedness to Israel, such as they had prayed
for ([Isaiah 65:17-25](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/17-25)).

**1. I am sought**—*Hebrew,*
"I have *granted access* unto Me to them," c. (so , "Should I be *inquired of*" ).
**found**— renders this, "I was made manifest." As an
instance of the sentiment in the clause, "I am sought," c.,
see [John 12:21](../../../kjv/john/12/21) of the sentiment
in this clause, [Acts 9:5](../../../kjv/acts/9/5). Compare
as to the Gentile converts, [Ephesians 2:12](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/12);
[Ephesians 2:13](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/13).
**Behold me**— ([Ephesians 2:13](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/13)).
**nation . . . not called by my
name**—that is, the Gentiles. God retorts in their own words ([Ephesians 2:13](../../../kjv/ephesians/2/13)) that their plea as being exclusively "called by His
name" will not avail, for God's gospel invitation is not so
exclusive ([Romans 9:25](../../../kjv/romans/9/25); [Romans 1:16](../../../kjv/romans/1/16)).

**2. spread out . . . hands**—inviting
them earnestly ([Proverbs 1:24](../../../kjv/proverbs/1/24)).
**all . . . day**—continually,
late and early ([Jeremiah 7:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/7/13)).
**rebellious people**—Israel,
whose rebellion was the occasion of God's turning to the Gentiles
([Romans 11:11](../../../kjv/romans/11/11); [Romans 11:12](../../../kjv/romans/11/12);
[Romans 11:15](../../../kjv/romans/11/15)).
**way . . . not good**—that
is, the very reverse of good, very bad ([Romans 11:15](../../../kjv/romans/11/15)).

**3. continually**—answering to
"all the day" ([Isaiah 65:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/2)).
God was continually inviting them, and they *continually*
offending Him ([Deuteronomy 32:21](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/21)).
**to my face**—They made no
attempt to hide their sin ([Isaiah 3:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/3/9)).
Compare "*before* Me" ([Isaiah 3:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/3/9)).
**in gardens**—(See on [Isaiah 3:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/3/9); [Isaiah 66:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/66/17); [Leviticus 17:5](../../../kjv/leviticus/17/5)).
**altars of brick**—*Hebrew,*
"bricks." God had commanded His altars to be of *unhewn
stone* ([Exodus 20:25](../../../kjv/exodus/20/25)). This was
in order to separate them, even in *external respects,* from
idolaters; also, as all chiselling was forbidden, they could not
inscribe superstitious symbols on them as the heathen did. Bricks
were more easily so inscribed than stone; hence their use for the
cuneiform inscriptions at Babylon, and also for idolatrous altars.
Some, not so well, have supposed that the "bricks" here
mean the flat brick-paved *roofs* of houses on which they
sacrificed to the sun, c. ([2 Kings 23:12](../../../kjv/2-kings/23/12)
[Jeremiah 19:13](../../../kjv/jeremiah/19/13)).

**4. remain among . . . graves**—namely,
for purposes of necromancy, as if to hold converse with the dead
([Isaiah 8:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/19); [Isaiah 8:20](../../../kjv/isaiah/8/20);
compare [Mark 5:3](../../../kjv/mark/5/3)); or, for the
sake of purifications, usually performed at night among sepulchres,
to appease the manes [MAURER].
**monuments**—*Hebrew,*
"pass the night in *hidden recesses,*" either the
idol's *inmost shrines* ("consecrated precincts")
[HORSLEY], where they used
to sleep, in order to have divine communications in dreams [JEROME];
or better, on account of the parallel "graves," *sepulchral
caves* [MAURER].
**eat swine's flesh**—To
eat it at all was contrary to God's law ([Mark 5:3](../../../kjv/mark/5/3)), but it much increased their guilt that they ate it in
idolatrous sacrifices (compare [Mark 5:3](../../../kjv/mark/5/3)). VARRO (*On
Agriculture,* 2.4) says that swine were first used in sacrifices;
the Latins sacrificed a pig to Ceres; it was also offered on occasion
of treaties and marriages.
**broth**—so called from
the "pieces" (*Margin*) or fragments of bread over
which the broth was poured [GESENIUS];
such broth, made of swine's flesh, offered in sacrifice, was thought
to be especially acceptable to the idol and was used in magic rites.
Or, "fragments (pieces) of abominable foods," c. This
fourth clause explains more fully the third, as the second does the
first [MAURER].
**is in**—rather,
literally, "is their vessels," that is, constitute their
vessels' contents. The Jews, in our Lord's days, and ever since the
return from Babylon, have been free from idolatry still the imagery
from idolatrous abominations, as being the sin most loathsome in
God's eyes and that most prevalent in Isaiah's time, is employed to
describe the foul sin of Israel in all ages, culminating in their
killing Messiah, and still rejecting Him.

**5.** ([Matthew 9:11](../../../kjv/matthew/9/11);
[Luke 5:30](../../../kjv/luke/5/30); [Luke 18:11](../../../kjv/luke/18/11);
[Judges 1:19](../../../kjv/judges/1/19)). Applicable to the
hypocritical self-justifiers of our Lord's time.
**smoke**—alluding to the
smoke of their self-righteous sacrifices; the fire of God's *wrath*
was kindled at the sight, and exhibited itself in the *smoke*
that breathed forth from His nostrils; in *Hebrew* the nose is
the seat of anger; and the nostrils distended in wrath, as it were,
breathe forth smoke [ROSENMULLER]
([Psalms 18:8](../../../kjv/psalms/18/8)).

**6. written before me**—"it
is decreed by Me," namely, what follows (), [MAURER]; or,
their guilt is recorded before Me (compare [Daniel 7:10](../../../kjv/daniel/7/10);
[Revelation 20:12](../../../kjv/revelation/20/12); [Malachi 3:16](../../../kjv/malachi/3/16)).
**into . . . bosom**—
([Psalms 79:12](../../../kjv/psalms/79/12); [Jeremiah 32:18](../../../kjv/jeremiah/32/18);
[Luke 6:38](../../../kjv/luke/6/38)). The Orientals used the
loose fold of the garment falling on "the bosom" or lap, as
a receptacle for carrying things. The sense thus is: I will repay
their sin so *abundantly* that the hand will not be able to
receive it; it will need the spacious *fold on the bosom* to
contain it [ROSENMULLER].
Rather it is, "I will repay it to *the very person from whom
it has emanated.*" Compare "God did render the evil of
the men of Shechem upon their heads" ([Judges 9:57](../../../kjv/judges/9/57);
[Psalms 7:16](../../../kjv/psalms/7/16)) [GESENIUS].

**7.** Their sin had been
accumulating from age to age until God at last repaid it in full.
**mountains**— ([Isaiah 57:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/57/7);
[Ezekiel 18:6](../../../kjv/ezekiel/18/6); [Ezekiel 20:27](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/27);
[Ezekiel 20:28](../../../kjv/ezekiel/20/28); [Hosea 4:13](../../../kjv/hosea/4/13)).
**their**—"Your"
had preceded. From speaking *to,* He speaks *of* them; this
implies growing alienation from them and greater distance.
**work**—the full
*recompense* of their work (so [Hosea 4:13](../../../kjv/hosea/4/13)).

**8. new wine**—*as if some
grapes having good wine-producing juice in them,* be found in a
cluster which the vinedresser was about to throw away as bad, and one
saith, c.
**blessing**—that is, good
wine-producing juice (compare [Judges 9:13](../../../kjv/judges/9/13)
[Joel 2:14](../../../kjv/joel/2/14)).
**so**—God will spare the
godly "remnant," while the ungodly mass of the nation shall
be destroyed ([Isaiah 1:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/1/9); [Isaiah 6:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/13);
[Isaiah 10:21](../../../kjv/isaiah/10/21); [Isaiah 11:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/11);
[Isaiah 11:12-16](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/12-16)).
**my servants**—the godly
remnant. But HORSLEY, "for
the sake of my *servant, Messiah.*"

**9. seed**—"the holy seed"
([Isaiah 6:13](../../../kjv/isaiah/6/13)), a posterity from
Jacob, designed to repossess the Holy Land, forfeited by the sin of
the former Jews.
**my mountains**—Jerusalem
and the rest of Judea, peculiarly God's (compare [Isaiah 2:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/2/2);
[Isaiah 11:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/11/9); [Isaiah 14:32](../../../kjv/isaiah/14/32)).
**it**—the Holy Land.
**elect**— ([Isaiah 65:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/15);
[Isaiah 65:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/22)).

**10. Sharon**—(See on ; [Isaiah 65:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/3)).
**Achor**—meaning
"trouble"; a valley near Jericho, so called from the
trouble caused to Israel by Achan's sin ([Isaiah 65:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/3)). "The valley of Achor," proverbial for whatever
caused calamity, shall become proverbial for joy and prosperity ([Isaiah 65:3](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/3)).

**11. holy mountain**—Moriah, on
which the temple was.
**troop**—rather "Gad,"
the Babylonian god of fortune, the planet Jupiter, answering to Baal
or Bel; the Arabs called it "the Greater Good Fortune"; and
the planet Venus answering to Meni, "the Lesser Good Fortune"
[GESENIUS, KIMCHI,
c.]. Tables were laid out for their idols with all kinds of viands,
and a cup containing a mixture of wine and honey, in Egypt
especially, on the last day of the year [JEROME].
**drink offering**—rather,
"mixed drink."
**number**—rather, "Meni"
as goddess of fortune she was thought to *number* the fates of
men. VITRINGA understands
Gad to be the sun; Meni the moon, or Ashtaroth or Astarte ().

**12. number**—"doom"
you. Alluding to the "number," as Meni () means. Retribution in kind, the punishment answering to
the sin (compare ).
**I called, ye . . . not
answer**—"I called," though "none had called"
upon Me ([Isaiah 64:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/64/7)); yet even
then none "answered" ([Isaiah 64:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/64/7)). Contrast with this God and His people's mutual fellowship
in prayer ([Isaiah 65:24](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/24)).

**13. eat**—enjoy all blessings
from me ([Song of Solomon 5:1](../../../kjv/song-of-solomon/5/1)).
**hungry**— ([Amos 4:6](../../../kjv/amos/4/6);
[Amos 8:11](../../../kjv/amos/8/11)). This may refer to the
siege of Jerusalem under Titus, when 1,100,000 are said to have
perished by famine; thus [Isaiah 65:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/15)
will refer to God's people without distinction of Jew and Gentile
receiving "another name," namely, that of *Christians*
[HOUBIGANT]. A further
fulfilment may still remain, just before the creation of the "new
heavens and earth," as the context, [Isaiah 65:15](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/15), implies.

**14. howl**— ([Isaiah 15:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/15/2);
[Matthew 8:12](../../../kjv/matthew/8/12)).

**15. curse**—The name of "Jew"
has been for long a formula of execration (compare ); if one wishes to curse another, he can utter nothing
worse than this, "God make thee what the Jew is!" Contrast
the formula ([Genesis 48:20](../../../kjv/genesis/48/20))
[MAURER].
**my chosen**—the elect
Church, gathered from Jews and Gentiles, called by "another
name," *Christians* ([Genesis 48:20](../../../kjv/genesis/48/20)). However (see on [Genesis 48:20](../../../kjv/genesis/48/20)), as "My chosen," or "elect," in [Genesis 48:20](../../../kjv/genesis/48/20), refers to the "seed of Jacob," *the believing
Jews,* hereafter about to possess their land ([Isaiah 65:19](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/19);
[Isaiah 65:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/22)), are *ultimately*
meant by "My chosen," as contrasted with the unbelieving
Jews ("ye"). These elect Jews shall be called by "another,"
or a *new name,* that is, shall no longer be "forsaken"
of God for unbelief, but shall be His "delight" and
"married" to Him ([Isaiah 62:2](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/2);
[Isaiah 62:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/4)).
**thee**—unbelieving
Israel. *Isaiah* here speaks of God, whereas in the preceding
sentences *God Himself* spake. This change of persons marks
without design how completely the prophet realized God with him and
in him, so that he passes, without formally announcing it, from God's
words to his own, and vice versa, both alike being from God.

**16. That he**—rather, "he
who," c.
**blesseth,** &c.—
([Psalms 72:17](../../../kjv/psalms/72/17) [Jeremiah 4:2](../../../kjv/jeremiah/4/2)).
**God of truth**—very God,
as opposed to *false* gods; *Hebrew, Amen:* the very name
of Messiah ([2 Corinthians 1:20](../../../kjv/2-corinthians/1/20); [Revelation 3:14](../../../kjv/revelation/3/14)),
faithful to His promises ([John 1:17](../../../kjv/john/1/17);
[John 6:32](../../../kjv/john/6/32)). Real, substantial,
spiritual, eternal, as opposed to the shadowy types of the law.
**sweareth,** c.—God alone
shall be appealed to as God ([Isaiah 19:18](../../../kjv/isaiah/19/18)
[Deuteronomy 6:13](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/6/13); [Psalms 63:11](../../../kjv/psalms/63/11)).
**troubles**—that is, sins,
provocations [LOWTH].
Rather, *calamities* caused by your sins; so far from these
visiting you again, the very *remembrance* of them is "hid
from Mine eyes" by the magnitude of the blessings I will confer
on you ([Isaiah 65:17](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/17), &c.).
[MAURER].

**17.** As Caleb inherited the same
land which his feet trod on ([Deuteronomy 1:36](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/1/36);
[Joshua 14:9](../../../kjv/joshua/14/9)), so Messiah and His
saints shall inherit the renovated earth which once they trod while
defiled by the enemy ([Isaiah 34:4](../../../kjv/isaiah/34/4);
[Isaiah 51:16](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/16); [Isaiah 66:22](../../../kjv/isaiah/66/22);
[Ezekiel 21:27](../../../kjv/ezekiel/21/27); [Psalms 2:8](../../../kjv/psalms/2/8);
[Psalms 37:11](../../../kjv/psalms/37/11); [2 Peter 3:13](../../../kjv/2-peter/3/13);
[Hebrews 12:26-28](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/26-28) [Hebrews 12:26-58](../../../kjv/hebrews/12/26-58)).
**not be remembered**—See
on [Isaiah 65:6](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/6), note on
"troubles"; the words here answer to "the former . . .
forgotten," &c. The former sorrows of the earth, under the
fall, shall be so far from recurring, that their very remembrance
shall be obliterated by the many mercies I will bestow on the new
earth ([Revelation 21:4-27](../../../kjv/revelation/21/4-27)).

**18. rejoice for ever . . .
Jerusalem**— ([Isaiah 51:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/11)).
"Everlasting joy . . . Zion." Spiritually ([Isaiah 51:11](../../../kjv/isaiah/51/11)).

**19.** ().
**weeping . . . no more**—
([Isaiah 25:7](../../../kjv/isaiah/25/7); [Isaiah 25:8](../../../kjv/isaiah/25/8);
[Isaiah 35:10](../../../kjv/isaiah/35/10); [Revelation 7:17](../../../kjv/revelation/7/17);
[Revelation 21:4](../../../kjv/revelation/21/4)), primarily, foretold of
*Jerusalem;* secondarily, of *all* the redeemed.

**20.** The longevity of men in the
first age of the world shall be enjoyed again.
**thence**—from that time
forward.
**infant of days**—that is,
an infant who shall only complete a few days; short-lived.
**filled . . . days**—None
shall die without attaining a full old age.
**child . . . die . . . hundred
years**—that is, "he that dieth an hundred years old shall
die a mere child" [LOWTH].
**sinner . . . hundred . . . be
accursed**—"The sinner that dieth at an hundred years shall
be deemed accursed," that is, his death at so early an age,
which in those days the hundredth year will be regarded, just as if
it were mere childhood, shall be deemed the effect of God's special
visitation in wrath [ROSENMULLER].
This passage proves that the better age to come on earth, though much
superior to the present will not be a perfect state; sin and death
shall have place in it (compare [Revelation 20:7](../../../kjv/revelation/20/7);
[Revelation 20:8](../../../kjv/revelation/20/8)), but much less
frequently than now.

**21.** (See on ; [Amos 9:14](../../../kjv/amos/9/14)).

**22.** They shall not experience
the curse pronounced ([Leviticus 26:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/16);
[Deuteronomy 28:30](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/30)).
**tree**—among the most
*long-lived* of objects in nature. They shall live as long as
the trees they "plant" (compare [Deuteronomy 28:30](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/28/30), end of verse; [Psalms 92:12](../../../kjv/psalms/92/12)).
**enjoy**—*Hebrew,*
"consume," "wear out"; they shall live to enjoy
the last of it ([Isaiah 62:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/62/9)).

**23. bring forth for
trouble**—literally, "for terror," that is, "They
shall not bring forth children for a *sudden death*"
([Leviticus 26:16](../../../kjv/leviticus/26/16); [Jeremiah 15:8](../../../kjv/jeremiah/15/8)).
**seed . . . blessed**—
([Isaiah 61:9](../../../kjv/isaiah/61/9)).
**offspring with them**—
([Hosea 9:12](../../../kjv/hosea/9/12)). "Their
offspring shall be with themselves" [MAURER];
not "brought forth" only to be cut off by "sudden
death" (see the parallel clause).

**24.** Contrast , "none . . . calleth," c. and see on , "*I* called, ye did not answer." MAURER
translates, "They shall hardly (literally, "not yet")
call, when (literally, "and") I will answer; they shall be
still speaking, when I will hear" ([Psalms 32:5](../../../kjv/psalms/32/5);
[Daniel 9:20](../../../kjv/daniel/9/20); [Daniel 9:21](../../../kjv/daniel/9/21)).

**25.** (See on ).
**and the lion shall eat straw
like the bullock**—(See on ).
**and dust**—rather, "but
dust," c. The curse shall *remain* on the serpent
[HORSLEY], ([Genesis 3:14](../../../kjv/genesis/3/14)
[Micah 7:17](../../../kjv/micah/7/17)). "*To lick the
dust*" is figurative of the utter and perpetual *degradation*
of Satan and his emissaries ([Isaiah 49:23](../../../kjv/isaiah/49/23);
[Psalms 72:9](../../../kjv/psalms/72/9)). Satan fell
*self-tempted;* therefore no atonement was contrived for him, as
there was for man, who fell by *his* temptation ([Judges 1:6](../../../kjv/judges/1/6);
[John 8:44](../../../kjv/john/8/44)). From his peculiar
connection with the earth and man, it has been conjectured that the
exciting cause of his rebellion was God's declaration that human
nature was to be raised into union with the Godhead; this was "the
truth" concerning the person of the Son of God which "he
abode not in"; it galled his pride that a lower race was to be
raised to that which he had aspired to ([John 8:44](../../../kjv/john/8/44)). How exultingly he might say, when man fell through him,
"*God* would raise manhood into union with Himself; *I*
have brought it down below the beasts by sin!" At that very
moment and spot he was told that the seed of the abhorred race, man,
should bruise his head ([1 John 3:8](../../../kjv/1-john/3/8)).
He was raised up for this, to show forth God's glory ([Exodus 9:16](../../../kjv/exodus/9/16);
[Romans 9:17](../../../kjv/romans/9/17)). In his unfallen state
he may have been God's vicegerent over the earth and the animal
kingdom before man: this will account for his assuming the form of a
serpent ([Genesis 3:1](../../../kjv/genesis/3/1)). Man succeeded
to that office ([Genesis 2:19](../../../kjv/genesis/2/19); [Genesis 2:20](../../../kjv/genesis/2/20)),
but forfeited it by sin, whence Satan became "prince of this
world"; Jesus Christ supplants the usurper, and as "Son of
man" regains the lost inheritance ([Genesis 2:20](../../../kjv/genesis/2/20)). The steps in Satan's overthrow are these: he is cast out,
first, from heaven ([Genesis 2:20](../../../kjv/genesis/2/20)) on earth; next, he is bound a thousand years ([Revelation 20:2](../../../kjv/revelation/20/2);
[Revelation 20:3](../../../kjv/revelation/20/3)); finally, he is cast
into the lake of fire for ever ([Revelation 20:3](../../../kjv/revelation/20/3)).
**the serpent's meat**—(See
on [Isaiah 65:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/1)).
**They shall not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain**—(See on [Isaiah 65:1](../../../kjv/isaiah/65/1)).

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