Isaiah 65:20
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.
No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.
This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
- KJV
- There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
- WEB
- “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
- ASV
- There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
- DARBY
- There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
- BLB
- There will not be from there anymore an infant of days, or an elder who does not fulfill his days. For the youth will die a son of a hundred years, a son, and the one falling short of a hundred years [old] will be accursed.
- ÅB
- Det skal ikke mere komme derfra noe diebarn som bare lever få dager, eller en gammel mann som ikke fyller sine dagers mål; nei, en ung mann skal den være som dør hundre år gammel, og hundre år gammel skal den synder bli som forbannes[^3].
- OTB
- Det skal ikke lenger være i den en spedbarn som lever bare noen få dager, eller en gammel person som ikke lever ut sine år; den som dør hundre år gammel, skal bli ansett som en ungdom, og den som ikke når hundre år, skal bli ansett som forbannet.
- B1930
- Det skal ikke mere komme derfra noget diebarn som bare lever få dager, eller en gammel mann som ikke fyller sine dagers mål; nei, en ung mann skal den være som dør hundre år gammel, og hundre år gammel skal den synder bli som forbannes. / < SLM 55, 24.>
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 5:26
You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in season.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 8:12–13
Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and still lives long, yet I also know that it will go well with those who fear God, who are reverent in His presence.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 4:40
Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
Read in contextPsalms 34:12
Who is the man who delights in life, who desires to see good days?
Read in contextIsaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked; disaster is upon them! For they will be repaid with what their hands have done.
Read in contextRomans 2:5–9
But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
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