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Isaiah 65:8

in Isaiah 65

This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Thus saith Jehovah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.

KJV

Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

This verse in Isaiah 65

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah · Written before 420.

(V. 8) Thus says the Lord: Just as when a grain is found in the cluster, and it is said: do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it; so I will do for the sake of my servants, that I will not destroy them all. LXX: Thus says the Lord: Just as when a grape is found in the cluster, and it is said: do not touch it, for there is a blessing in it; so I will do for the sake of my servant, that I will not destroy them all.

This site's exposition

as the new wine is found in the cluster

on Isaiah 65:8-10

The cluster of grapes carrying a blessing pictures the remnant hidden inside the nation under judgment, one saith, destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, and the Lord applies the figure directly, so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all, the servants named here for the first time in the chapter as the group the rest of the oracle keeps distinguishing. A seed out of Jacob and an inheritor out of Judah are promised the land itself, Sharon on the coastal plain and the valley of Achor south of Jericho named as literal pasture restored to literal flocks. Achor means trouble, the valley of Achan's judgment in Joshua seven, and Barnes and Delitzsch both note the reversal, the ground named for a curse becoming a place herds lie down in peace.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

A blessing is in it - The Hebrews call all things which serve for food ברכה berachah, “a blessing.” On this verse Kimchi remarks: “As the cluster of grapes contains, besides the juice, the bark, and the kernels, so the Israelites have, besides the just, sinners among them. Now as the cluster must not be destroyed because there is a blessing, a nutritive part in it; so Israel shall not be destroyed, because there are righteous persons in it.

The words behind it

20 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כֹּ֣ה׀thus

    kohH3541577 times

  • אָמַ֣רhe says

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH8345497 times

  • יִמָּצֵ֤אit is found

    yimatze'H4672455 times

  • הַתִּירוֹשׁ֙the new wine

    hatirovoshH849238 times

  • בָּֽאֶשְׁכּ֔וֹלin the cluster of grapes

    baeshkolH811

  • וְאָמַר֙and someone says

    veamarH5595305 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408724 times

  • תַּשְׁחִיתֵ֔הוּyou destroy it

    tashchitehuH7843146 times

  • כִּ֥יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • בְרָכָ֖הblessing

    verakhahH129369 times

  • בּ֑וֹ[is] in it

    bo

  • כֵּ֤ןso

    kenH3651771 times

  • אֶֽעֱשֶׂה֙I will act

    ʾeesehH62132628 times

  • לְמַ֣עַןfor [the] sake of

    lemaanH4616272 times

  • עֲבָדַ֔יservants my

    ʾavadaiH5650799 times

  • לְבִלְתִּ֖יto not

    leviltiH1115112 times

  • הַֽשְׁחִ֥יתto destroy

    hashchitH7843146 times

  • הַכֹּֽל׃<the> everyone

    hakolH36055413 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

5 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Mark 13:20

    If the Lord had not cut short those days, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, whom He has chosen, He has cut them short.

    it leads to

    • Matthew 24:22

      If those days had not been cut short, nobody would be saved. But for the sake of the elect, those days will be cut short.

    • Isaiah 65:8–9

      This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on…

    • Zechariah 13:8–9

      And in all the land, declares the LORD, two-thirds will be cut off and perish, but a third will be left in it.

    • Romans 11:28–32

      Regarding the gospel, they are enemies on your account; but regarding election, they are loved on account of the patriarchs.

    • Isaiah 6:13

      And though a tenth remains in the land, it will be burned again. As the terebinth and oak leave stumps when felled, so the holy seed will be a stump in the land.”

Where this verse is studied

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About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Prophecies of Isaiah and Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah.