Isaiah 65:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.

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  • Ps 92:12-14 : 12 The good man will be like a tall tree in his strength; his growth will be as the wide-stretching trees of Lebanon. 13 Those who are planted in the house of the Lord will come up tall and strong in his gardens. 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;
  • Isa 65:9 : 9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.
  • Isa 65:15 : 15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
  • Ps 91:16 : 16 With long life will he be rewarded; and I will let him see my salvation.
  • Ps 21:4 : 4 He made request to you for life, and you gave it to him, long life for ever and ever.
  • Gen 5:5 : 5 And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.
  • Gen 5:27 : 27 And all the years of Methuselah's life were nine hundred and sixty-nine: and he came to his end.
  • Lev 26:16 : 16 This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.
  • Rev 20:3-5 : 3 And put him into the great deep, and it was shut and locked over him, so that he might put the nations in error no longer, till the thousand years were ended: after this he will be let loose for a little time. 4 And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years. 5 The rest of the dead did not come to life again till the thousand years were ended. This is the first coming back from the dead.

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  • Isa 65:20-21
    2 verses
    89%

    20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.

    21 And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.

  • 23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.

  • 21 Your people will all be upright, the land will be their heritage for ever; the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, to be for my glory.

  • 13 And their wealth will be violently taken away, and their houses will be made waste: they will go on building houses and never living in them, and planting vine-gardens but not drinking the wine from them.

  • 9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.

  • Amos 9:13-15
    3 verses
    73%

    13 See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.

    14 And I will let the fate of my people Israel be changed, and they will be building up again the waste towns and living in them; they will again be planting vine-gardens and taking the wine for their drink; and they will make gardens and get the fruit of them.

    15 And I will have them planted in their land, and never again will they be uprooted from their land which I have given them, says the Lord your God.

  • 5 Go on building houses and living in them, and planting gardens and using the fruit of them;

  • Isa 61:4-5
    2 verses
    71%

    4 And they will be building again the old broken walls, and will make new the old waste places, and will put up again the towns which have been waste for long generations.

    5 And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.

  • 5 Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.

  • 17 And he has given them their heritage, and by his hand it has been measured out to them: it will be theirs for ever, their resting-place from generation to generation.

  • 7 And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.

  • 29 And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.

  • 9 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be in the place which is theirs and never again be moved; and never again will they be made waste by evil men, as they were at first,

  • 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use.

  • 25 And they will be living in the land which I gave to Jacob, my servant, in which your fathers were living; and they will go on living there, they and their children and their children's children, for ever: and David, my servant, will be their ruler for ever.

  • 6 For I will keep my eyes on them for good, and I will take them back again to this land, building them up and not pulling them down, planting them and not uprooting them.

  • 8 Cursed are those who are joining house to house, and putting field to field, till there is no more living-space for any but themselves in all the land!

  • 32 And never again will there be an old man in your family.

  • 6 In days to come Jacob will take root: Israel will put out buds and flowers; and the face of the world will be full of fruit.

  • 35 For God will be the saviour of Zion, and the builder of the towns of Judah; so that it may be their resting-place and heritage.

  • 26 And they will not take from you a stone for the angle of a wall or the base of a building; but you will be a waste place for ever, says the Lord.

  • 14 They will give fruit even when they are old; they will be fertile and full of growth;

  • 22 For as the new heaven and the new earth which I will make will be for ever before me, says the Lord, so will your seed and your name be for ever.

  • 5 And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.

  • 26 And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.

  • 18 And my people will be living in peace, in houses where there is no fear, and in quiet resting-places.

  • 30 You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • 41 You will have sons and daughters, but they will not be yours; for they will go away prisoners into a strange land.

  • 8 But you, O mountains of Israel, will put out your branches and give your fruit to my people Israel; for they are ready to come.

  • 13 And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.

  • 11 The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

  • 2 And the people will take them with them to their place: and the children of Israel will give them a heritage in the Lord's land as men-servants and women-servants, making them prisoners whose prisoners they were; and they will be rulers over their masters.

  • 17 They will take all the produce of your fields, which would have been food for your sons and your daughters: they will take your flocks and your herds: they will take all your vines and your fig-trees: and with the sword they will make waste your walled towns in which you put your faith.

  • 39 You will put in vines and take care of them, but you will get no wine or grapes from them; for they will be food for worms.

  • 12 For I will let the seed of peace be planted; the vine will give her fruit and the land will give her increase and the heavens will give their dew; and I will give to the rest of this people all these things for their heritage.

  • Jer 31:28-29
    2 verses
    67%

    28 And it will come about that, as I have been watching over them for the purpose of uprooting and smashing down and overturning and sending destruction and causing trouble; so I will be watching over them for the purpose of building up and planting, says the Lord.

    29 In those days they will no longer say, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are put on edge.

  • 11 So because the poor man is crushed under your feet, and you take taxes from him of grain: you have made for yourselves houses of cut stone, but you will not take your rest in them; the fair vine-gardens planted by your hands will not give you wine.

  • 29 He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

  • 10 And I will make a resting-place for my people Israel, planting them there, so that they may be living in the place which is theirs, and never again be moved; and never again will they be troubled by evil men as they were at the first,

  • 13 But the land will become a waste because of its people, as the fruit of their works.

  • 22 And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.

  • 15 You will put in seed, but you will not get in the grain; you will be crushing olives, but your bodies will not be rubbed with the oil; and you will get in the grapes, but you will have no wine.

  • 17 For though the fig-tree has no flowers, and there is no fruit on the vine, and work on the olive comes to nothing, and the fields give no food; and the flock is cut off from its resting-place, and there is no herd in the cattle-house:

  • 33 The fruit of your land and all the work of your hands will be food for a nation which is strange to you and to your fathers; you will only be crushed down and kept under for ever:

  • 4 But every man will be seated under his vine and under his fig-tree, and no one will be a cause of fear to them: for the mouth of the Lord of armies has said it.