They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
If these promises were in part fulfilled when the Jews, after their return out of captivity, were settled in peace in their own land and brought as it were into a new world, yet they were to have their full accomplishment in the gospel church, militant first and at length triumphant. The Jerusalem that is from above is free and is the mother of us all.
Commenting on Isaiah 65:17-25
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them,.... In Jerusalem, and other parts of Judea: though this need not be limited to the Jews, but be considered as reaching to all the Lord's people, the Gentiles also; who will be in no fear of enemies, or ever be disturbed by them, but shall dwell in their own houses peaceably and quietly; this is the reverse...
And they shall build houses, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. (b) He proposes to the faithful the blessings which are contained in the law, and so under temporal things comprehends the spiritual promises.