Isaiah 65:17 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 65:17

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

BSB

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ASV

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

KJV

For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

Moreover, those who embrace change, improvement, and do not consider the destruction of elements to be a demise, use this example: In the beginning, you established the earth, O Lord, and the works of your hands are the heavens. They will perish, but you remain, and all of them will wear out like a garment, and you will change them like clothing, and they will be changed (Psalm 102:26-27). This clearly demonstrates a transformation for the better, not an annihilation into nothingness, but a change.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century3 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

For behold - The idea in this verse is, that there should be a state of glory as great as if a new heaven and a new earth were to be made. I create new heavens - Calamity and punishment in the Bible are often represented by the heavens growing dark, and being rolled up like as a scroll, or passing away (see the notes at Isa 13:10; Isa 34:4).

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 2211: “God Rejoicing in the New Creation” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1891)

THIS passage, like the rest of Isaiah's closing chapters, will have complete fulfillment in the latter days when Christ shall come, when the whole company of His elect ones shall have been gathered out from the world, when the whole creation shall have been renewed, when new heavens and a new earth shall be the product of the Savior's power, when, forever and forever, perfected saints of God shall behold His face and joy and rejoice in Him.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

As Caleb inherited the same land which his feet trod on (De 1:36; Jos 14:9), so Messiah and His saints shall inherit the renovated earth which once they trod while defiled by the enemy (Isa 34:4; Heb 12:26-28 Re 21:1). not be remembered--See on Isa 65:16, note on "troubles"; the words here answer to "the former . . . forgotten," &c.

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Original language & word study

14 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כִּֽי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
הִנְנִ֥י	hi.Ni	here I	H2005 →
בוֹרֵ֛א	vo.Re'	[am] about to create	H1254 →
שָׁמַ֥יִם	sha.Ma.yim	heavens	H8064 →
חֲדָשִׁ֖ים	cha.da.Shim	new	H2319 →
וָאָ֣רֶץ	va.'A.retz	and an earth	H776 →
חֲדָשָׁ֑ה	cha.da.Shah	new	H2319 →
וְלֹ֤א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תִזָּכַ֙רְנָה֙	ti.za.Khar.nah	they will be remembered	H2142 →
הָרִ֣אשֹׁנ֔וֹת	ha.Ri.sho.Not	the former [things]	H7223 →
וְלֹ֥א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תַעֲלֶ֖ינָה	ta.'a.Lei.nah	they will come up	H5927 →
עַל־	'al-	on	H5921 →
לֵֽב׃	Lev	a heart	H3820 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Isaiah 43:18
“Do not call to mind the former things; pay no attention to the things of old.
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 3:10
  Indeed, what was once glorious has no glory now in comparison to the glory that surpasses it.
- 1 Chronicles 16:12
  Remember the wonders He has done, His marvels, and the judgments He has pronounced,
- Deuteronomy 8:2
  Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your…
- Jeremiah 16:14–15
  Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
- Isaiah 46:9
  Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
Through
2 Peter 3:13
But in keeping with God’s promise, we are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth, where righteousness dwells.
leads to
- Revelation 21:1
  Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and earth had passed away, and the sea was no more.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 66:22
  “For just as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “so your descendants and your name will endure.
- Revelation 21:27
  But nothing unclean will ever enter it, nor anyone who practices an abomination or a lie, but only those whose names are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.