Isaiah 65:14
in Isaiah 65My servants will shout for joy with a glad heart, but you will cry out with a heavy heart and wail with a broken spirit.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
KJV
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
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This verse in Isaiah 65
Commentary
7 notes on this verseSecond, in joy of heart: behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: repenting, and groaning for anguish of spirit (Wis 5:3).
This site's exposition
My servants will eat, but you will go hungry
on Isaiah 65:13-16
Four times the LORD sets His servants against the rest: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry”. The line runs inside the one covenant people. Blessings and oaths will be made “by the God of truth”, the Hebrew word Amen, as Henry and Barnes note.
This site's exposition
My servants will shout for joy
Barnes gives the Hebrew of broken spirit as breaking. Aquinas sets the wail beside Wisdom 5:3, where the wicked groan in anguish of spirit. Henry says the servants learn their debt to grace from the misery beside them.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 13, 14.) Therefore, thus says the Lord God: Behold, my servants will eat, and you will be hungry. Behold, my servants will drink, and you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, and you will be put to shame. Behold, my servants will praise with the exultation of the heart, and you will cry out because of the pain of the heart, and because of the brokenness of the spirit you will howl. LXX: Therefore, thus says the Lord: Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be confounded. Behold, my servants will exult in joy, but you will cry out because of the pain in your hearts, and because of the brokenness of your spirits you will wail. Not only will you fall by the sword, you who have forsaken the Lord and done evil in his sight, and refused to listen to his words, but you will also see a great difference between yourselves and the multitude of the nations. For those who serve me will eat and drink, rejoice and praise with exultation of the heart. But on the contrary, you will hunger and thirst, you will be confused and cry out in pain of heart and contrition of spirit. They think that all these things will be accomplished in a thousand years, believing that food and drink are the kingdom of God, without understanding that which is written: Labor not for the food which perishes, but for the bread of life and truth (John VI, 27), desiring to eat the flesh of Christ and the fruit of the tree of life. About which the Savior speaks: I am the bread that came down from heaven (John 6:33). And the Ecclesiastes says: Open your eyes and be satisfied with bread (Proverbs 20:13). And the Psalmist says: I was young, and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. […]
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart,....
(1.) God's servants may well think themselves happy, and for ever indebted to that free grace which made them so, when they see how miserable some of their neighbours are for want of that grace, who are hardened, and likely to perish for ever in unbelief, and what a narrow escape they had of being among them.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice
A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Shall sing for joy of heart - They who serve me shall have abundant occasion of rejoicing. But ye - shall howl. You shall shriek under the anguish and distress that shall come upon you. For vexation of spirit - Margin, as in Hebrew, ‘Breaking.’ That is, your spirit shall be broken and crushed under the weight of the calamities that shall come upon you.
The words behind it
12 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הִנֵּ֧ה | hineh | here! | H2009 → | 843 times |
| עֲבָדַ֛י | ʾavadai | servants my | H5650 → | 799 times |
| יָרֹ֖נּוּ | yaronu | they will shout for joy | H7442 → | 54 times |
| מִטּ֣וּב | mituv | from goodness of | H2898 → | 32 times |
| לֵ֑ב | lev | heart | H3820 → | 595 times |
| וְאַתֶּ֤ם | veatem | and you | H859 → | 1094 times |
| תִּצְעֲקוּ֙ | titzaku | you will cry out | H6817 → | 55 times |
| מִכְּאֵ֣ב | mikeev | from pain of | H3511 → | |
| לֵ֔ב | lev | heart | H3820 → | 595 times |
| וּמִשֵּׁ֥בֶר | umishever | and from brokenness of | H7667 → | 45 times |
| ר֖וּחַ | ruach | spirit | H7307 → | 378 times |
| תְּיֵלִֽילוּ׃ | teyelilu | you will wail | H3213 → | 30 times |
הִנֵּ֧הhere!
hinehH2009 →843 times
עֲבָדַ֛יservants my
ʾavadaiH5650 →799 times
יָרֹ֖נּוּthey will shout for joy
yaronuH7442 →54 times
מִטּ֣וּבfrom goodness of
mituvH2898 →32 times
לֵ֑בheart
levH3820 →595 times
וְאַתֶּ֤םand you
veatemH859 →1094 times
תִּצְעֲקוּ֙you will cry out
titzakuH6817 →55 times
מִכְּאֵ֣בfrom pain of
mikeevH3511 →
לֵ֔בheart
levH3820 →595 times
וּמִשֵּׁ֥בֶרand from brokenness of
umisheverH7667 →45 times
ר֖וּחַspirit
ruachH7307 →378 times
תְּיֵלִֽילוּ׃you will wail
teyeliluH3213 →30 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Matthew 8:12But the sons of the kingdom will be thrown into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
it leads to
- Matthew 25:30
And throw that worthless servant into the outer darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.’
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Matthew 24:51
Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Luke 13:28
There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth when you see Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, but you yourselves are thrown out.
- Matthew 21:43
Therefore I tell you that the kingdom of God will be taken away from you and given to a people who will produce its fruit.
- Matthew 13:50
and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
- Matthew 25:30
Through
Psalms 66:4All the earth bows down to You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” Selah
it leads to
- Psalms 22:27
All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will bow down before Him.
- Psalms 117:1
Praise the LORD, all you nations! Extol Him, all you peoples!
- Psalms 96:1–2
Sing to the LORD a new song; sing to the LORD, all the earth.
- Psalms 22:27
Where this verse is studied
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About Isaiah
This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Book of Isaiah; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Jerome, Commentary on Isaiah; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Thomas Aquinas, Commentary on Isaiah.