Isaiah 65:20

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

No longer will there be an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; the one who dies at a hundred will be thought of as a mere youth, and one who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    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 a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    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.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    There shall neuer be childe ner olde man, that haue not their full dayes. But whe the childe cometh to an huderth yeare olde, it shall dye. And yf he that is an huderth yeare of age do wronge, he shalbe cursed.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    There shall be no more there a childe of yeeres, nor an olde man that hath not filled his dayes: for he that shall be an hundreth yeeres old, shall dye as a yong man: but the sinner being an hundreth yeeres olde shall be accursed.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    There shall neither be chylde nor olde man that haue not their full dayes: but when the chylde commeth to an hundred yeres olde it shal dye, and if he that is an hundred yeres of age do wrong, he shalbe cursed.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    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 a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    "There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed.

Referenced Verses

  • Deut 4:40 : 40 Keep His statutes and commandments that I am giving you today, so that it may go well with you and your children after you, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
  • Job 5:26 : 26 You will come to the grave in full vigor, like a sheaf of grain gathered in its season.
  • Ps 34:12 : 12 Come, my children, and listen to me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
  • Isa 3:11 : 11 Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; they will be repaid for their deeds.
  • Rom 2:5-9 : 5 But because of your stubbornness and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 He will repay each person according to their deeds. 7 To those who seek glory, honor, and immortality by persistence in doing good, He will give eternal life. 8 But to those who are self-seeking, who disobey the truth and obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be tribulation and distress for every soul of man who does what is evil, first for the Jew, then also for the Gentile.
  • Eccl 8:12-13 : 12 Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and lives a long time, I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who honor Him. 13 But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 65:17-19
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    77%

    17Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.

    18But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.

    19I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her.

  • Isa 65:21-23
    3 verses
    74%

    21They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

    22They will not build and have another inhabit, nor will they plant and have another eat. For like the days of a tree will be the days of my people, and my chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands.

    23They will not labor in vain or bear children for sudden disaster, for they are a people blessed by the LORD, they and their offspring with them.

  • 20The womb forgets them; worms feast upon them; they are no longer remembered. Wickedness is broken like a tree.

  • 20Your sun will no longer set, and your moon will not wane; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning will come to an end.

  • 69%

    31The days are coming when I will cut off your strength and the strength of your father’s house, so that there will not be an old man in your house.

    32You will see distress in My dwelling, despite all the good I do for Israel. Never will there be an old man in your family line.

  • 16Parents are not to be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their parents; each will die for their own sin.

  • Isa 14:20-21
    2 verses
    69%

    20You will not be joined with them in burial, because you have destroyed your land and slain your people. The offspring of evildoers will never be remembered.

    21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • 26None will miscarry or be barren in your land, and I will fulfill the number of your days.

  • 4He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.

  • 11And people will live in it, and there will no longer be any curse of destruction. Jerusalem will dwell in security.

  • 20The soul who sins will die. The son will not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous will be credited to them, and the wickedness of the wicked will be charged against them.

  • 10The span of our life is seventy years—or eighty, if we have strength; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.

  • 3As I live, declares the Sovereign Lord, you will no longer use this proverb in Israel.

  • 24Then they will go out and look at the dead bodies of those who rebelled against Me; their worm will not die, their fire will not be quenched, and they will be abhorrent to all mankind.

  • 29In those days, people will no longer say, 'The fathers ate sour grapes, and the children’s teeth were set on edge.'

  • 4This is what the LORD of Hosts says: Old men and women will again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each holding a staff in hand because of old age.

  • 3A man may father a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy life's good things and receives no proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

  • 9for the redemption of their soul is costly, and it ceases forever—

  • 10All the sinners of My people will die by the sword, those who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or confront us.'

  • 6Lift up your eyes to the heavens and look at the earth below. For the heavens will vanish like smoke, the earth will wear out like a garment, and its inhabitants will die like flies. But My salvation will last forever, and My righteousness will never fail.

  • Jer 20:15-16
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    15Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, 'A male child has been born to you,' and made him very glad.

    16May that man be like the cities the LORD overthrew without relenting. May he hear cries of distress in the morning and shouts of alarm at noon.

  • 9The eye that saw him will see him no longer, and his place will behold him no more.

  • 25Outside, the sword will bring bereavement, and inside, there will be terror. It will affect both the young man and the young woman, the nursing child with the gray-haired man.

  • 50It will be a fierce and ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and no mercy for the young.

  • 14Planted in the house of the LORD, they will flourish in the courts of our God.

  • 19Though he blesses himself during his lifetime, and people praise you when you prosper,

  • 19He has no offspring or posterity among his people, nor any survivor where he once lived.

  • Eccl 8:12-13
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    66%

    12Although a sinner does evil a hundred times and lives a long time, I know that it will be well with those who fear God, who honor Him.

    13But it will not go well for the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not fear God.

  • 3Then the Lord said, "My Spirit will not contend with humanity forever, because they are flesh; their days will be 120 years."

  • 20Their children will be as they were in former times, and their community will be established before Me. I will punish all who oppress them.

  • 6Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

  • 11The youthful vigor that filled his bones will lie down with him in the dust.

  • 18But his father, because he practiced extortion, robbed his own people, and did what was not good among them—behold, he will die for his iniquity.

  • 22Therefore, this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am about to punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters will die by famine.’

  • 6Even if someone lives a thousand years twice over but does not enjoy their prosperity, do not all go to the same place?

  • 15Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, with no one passing through, I will make you an everlasting pride, a joy of all generations.

  • 20All the days of the wicked man he writhes in pain, and the years allotted to the ruthless are hidden away.

  • 24And no resident will say, 'I am sick.' The people who dwell there will be forgiven their iniquity.

  • 21Young and old lie together in the dust of the streets; my young women and young men have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your anger; you have slaughtered them without pity.