Isaiah 65:18

But be you glad, and rejoice for ever in that which I create,.... This may refer either to persons converted, both at the beginning of the Gospel, and in the latter day, whether Jews or Gentiles; who…

But be ye glad and rejoice - (See the notes at Isa 51:11). Forever - It is not to be momentary happiness - like a bright morning that is soon overcast with clouds. The joy of God’s people is to endure…

Rejoice for ever in that which I create "Exult in the age to come which I create" - So in Isa 9:5 אבי עד abi ad, πατηρ του μελλοντος αιωνος, "the father of the age to come," Sept. See Bishop Chandler,…

If these promises were in part fulfilled when the Jews, after their return out of captivity, were settled in peace in their own land and brought as it were into a new world, yet they were to have…

I create Jerusalem a rejoicing &c. i.e. either an object in which one may rejoice (Isa 65:65, ch. Isa 60:15) or an abode of joy (ch. Isa 51:3; Isa 61:7).