Isaiah 65 · Verse 21

Isaiah 65:21

And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:21, King James Version

Isaiah 65:21 in other translations

BSBThey will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
WEBThey will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
ASVAnd they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
YLTAnd they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
DARBYAnd they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof:
BBEAnd they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
WebsterAnd they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

What does Isaiah 65:21 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
21. (See on Is 62:8; Am 9:14).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 65:17-25

In the grace and comfort believers have in and from Christ, we are to look for this new heaven and new earth. The former confusions, sins and miseries of the human race, shall be no more remembered or renewed. The approaching happy state of the church is described under a variety of images. He shall be thought to die in his youth, and for his sins, who only lives to the age of a hundred years. The event alone can…

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Isaiah 65:21 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וּבָנ֥וּu.va.Nuand they will buildH1129
בָתִּ֖יםva.TimhousesH1004
וְיָשָׁ֑בוּve.ya.Sha.vuand they will dwell [in them]H3427
וְנָטְע֣וּve.na.te.'Uand they will plantH5193
כְרָמִ֔יםkhe.ra.MimvineyardsH3754
וְאָכְל֖וּve.'a.khe.Luand they will eatH398
פִּרְיָֽם\׃pir.Yamfruit theirH6529

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Cross references for Isaiah 65:21

  • Amos 9:14

    And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Isaiah 62:8-9

    The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured: But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.

  • Jeremiah 31:4-5

    Again I will build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: thou shalt again be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry. Thou shalt yet plant vines upon the mountains of Samaria: the planters shall plant, and shall eat them as common things.

  • Isaiah 32:18

    And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

  • Isaiah 37:30

    And this shall be a sign unto thee, Ye shall eat this year such as groweth of itself; and the second year that which springeth of the same: and in the third year sow ye, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat the fruit thereof.

  • Judges 6:1-6

    And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the Lord: and the Lord delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years. And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the children of the east, even they came up against them; And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass. …

  • Leviticus 26:16

    I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
62:8,9; Le 26:16; De 28:30-33; Jud 6:1-6; Jer 31:4,5; Am 9:14

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Context

  • Isaiah 65:20

    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.

  • Isaiah 65:21

    And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

  • Isaiah 65:22

    They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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Isaiah 65:21 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y edificarán casas, y morarán en ellas; plantarán viñas, y comerán el fruto de ellas.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Et ils bâtiront des maisons et les habiteront, et ils planteront des vignes et en mangeront le fruit;
German
Elberfelder 1871
Und sie werden Häuser bauen und bewohnen, und Weinberge pflanzen und ihre Frucht essen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Et ædificabunt domos, et habitabunt; et plantabunt vineas, et comedent fructus earum.