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Isaiah 65:19

Isaiah 65:19
And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people,.... God himself rejoices in his people, as they are considered in Christ; so he did from all eternity, and so he does at the conversion of them;…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

And I will rejoice in Jerusalem - (See the notes at Isa 62:5). And the voice of weeping shall no more be heard - (See the notes at Isa 25:7-8).

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

The voice of weeping, etc. - "Because of untimely deaths shall no more be heard in thee; for natural death shall not happen till men be full of days; as it is written, Isa 65:20 : There shall be no…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 65:17-25

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

God Himself rejoices in the new city and people; cf. Isa 62:5.

and the voice of weeping &c. Cf. ch. Isa 25:8; Isa 35:10.