Isaiah Chapter 65 verse 17 Holy Bible
For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
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For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
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For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.
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Isaiah 65 : 17 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 17-25. - A PROMISE OF NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. The final answer of God to the complaint and prayer of his people (ch. 64.) is now given. The entire existing state of things is to pass away. God will create a new heaven and a new earth, and place his people therein; and the old conditions will be all changed, and the old grounds of complaint disappear. In the "new Jerusalem" there will be no sorrow, neither "weeping" nor "crying" (ver. 19); life will be greatly prolonged (ver. 20); men will always enjoy the fruit of their labours (vers. 21, 22), and see their children grow up (ver. 23). Prayer will be answered almost before it is uttered (ver. 24). Finally, there will be peace in the animal world, and between the animal world and man. No living thing will kill or hurt another in all God's "holy mountain" (ver. 25). Verse 17. - I create. The same verb is used as in Genesis 1:1; and the prophet's idea seems to be that the existing heaven and earth are to be entirely destroyed (see Isaiah 24:19, 20, and the comment ad loc.), and a fresh heaven and earth created in their place out of nothing. The "new Jerusalem" is not the old Jerusalem renovated, but is a veritable "new Jerusalem," "created a rejoicing" (ver. 18; scrap. Revelation 21:2). The germ of the teaching will be found in Isaiah 51:16. The former shall not be remembered. Some suppose "the former troubles" (see ver. 16) to be meant; but it is best (with Delitzsch) to understand "the former heavens and earth." The glory of the new heavens and earth would be such that the former ones would not only not be regretted, but would not even be had in remembrance. No one would so much as think of them.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(17) Behold, I create new heavens . . .--The thought reappears in many forms in the New Testament--verbally in 2Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1, substantially in the "restitution of all things" (Acts 3:21), in the "manifestation of the sons of God" (Romans 8:19). The "former things," the sin and sorrow of the past, shall then fade away from the memory of God's people, absorbed in the abounding and everlasting joy.