They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
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Gill's Exposition
They shall not labour in vain,.... As they do, who build houses, and enemies come and turn them out of them, and dwell in them themselves; or who plant vineyards, and sow their fields, and strangers…
Barnes' Notes
They shall not labor in vain - That is, either because their land shall be unfruitful, or because others shall plunder them. Nor bring forth for trouble - Lowth renders this, ‘Neither shall they…
Adam Clarke
They shall not labor in vain "My chosen shall not labor in vain" - I remove בחירי bechirai, my elect, from the end of the twenty-second to the beginning of the twenty-third verse, on the authority of…
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…
Cambridge Bible
They shall not weary themselves for vanity] ch. Isa 49:4; Hab 2:13; because God's blessing rests on them.
nor bring forth(sc. children) for sudden destruction] Jer 15:8; Psa 78:33.
and their offspring…
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