Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:18

18 But be you glad, and rejoice for ever , in that which I create, for behold I create Hierusalem a rejoycing, and her people a joy.

You that are my people, though you cannot rejoice with that degree of joy, that attendeth a present fruition of good, yet be glad, and rejoice with the rejoycing of hope, for the thing is certain, what I am already doing, nor let your present state, or the discouragements you have from seeming improbabilities, spoil your joy, for it is not a work to be produced in an ordinary course, or by an ordinary power, but by the power of me who brings something out of nothing, or out of what hath no fittedness to such a production, and I will create

Hierusalem a rejoycing, and her people a joy; by Hierusalem, here must be meant the Church, as well under the Gospel, as under the law, (because the Gospel Church is grafted into that Olive) or else this prophecy, m[illegible: 1+ letters]st be understood as fulfilled in the coming of Christ, Luke 2. 10. Or else it referreth to a more full calling of the Jews, then we have yet seen or heard of.