Isaiah Chapter 65 Back Next{65:1} "I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.
{65:2} I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
{65:3} a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in
gardens, and burning
incense on
bricks;
{65:4} who sit among the
graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's
flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
{65:5} who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a
fire that burns all the day.
{65:6} "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their
bosom,
{65:7} your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your
fathers together," says Yahweh, "who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the
hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom."
{65:8} Thus says Yahweh, "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, 'Don't destroy it, for a
blessing is in it:' so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.
{65:9} I will bring forth a seed out of
Jacob, and out of
Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
{65:10} Sharon shall be a
fold of flocks, and the valley of
Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.
{65:11} "But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;
{65:12} I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn't answer; when I spoke, you didn't listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight."
{65:13} Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, "Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall
drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be disappointed;
{65:14} behold, my servants shall sing for joy of
heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for anguish of spirit.
{65:15} You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
{65:16} so that he who blesses himself in the
earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.
{65:17} "For, behold, I create new
heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
{65:18} But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
{65:19} I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
{65:20} "There shall be no more there an
infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
{65:21} They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
{65:22} They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
{65:23} They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.
{65:24} It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
{65:25} The wolf and the
lamb shall feed together, and the
lion shall eat straw like the ox; and
dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain," says Yahweh.
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