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Isaiah 65 — Sermon Preparation

Below is a research summary for Isaiah 65, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.

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Isaiah 65 in the Hebrew

Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.

Hebrew Transliteration Strong's Count Glosses
עֶבֶד ʻebed H5650 7 servant
בָּחִיר bâchîyr H972 3 select
עַם ʻam H5971 6 people, tribe
אָכַל ʼâkal H398 5 eat
בָּרָא bârâʼ H1254 3 create, cut down
הַר har H2022 4 mountain, range
קָרָא qârâʼ H7121 4 call out to

How preachers through history handled this text

7 public-domain excerpts on Isaiah 65, from the church fathers to the Puritans.

Spurgeon 3 Calvin 1 Matthew Henry 1 Alexander MacLaren 1 John Wesley 1

“THE GOD OF THE AMEN' He who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth.'--ISAIAH lxv. 16. The full beauty and significance of these remarkable words are only reached when we attend to the literal rendering of a part of them which is obscured in our version. As they stand in the original they have, in both cases, instead of the vague expression, The God of truth,' the singularly picturesque one, The God of the Amen.' I. Note the meaning of the name. …”

— Alexander MacLaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah, on Isaiah 65:16–30 (Public Domain)

Places in the text

Based on ancient-geography data

  • Sharon 1 — Isa 65:10
  • Valley of Achor — Isa 65:10
  • Jerusalem — Isa 65:18

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