Isaiah 65:1-19 ▼

1 “I was sought by those who did not ask; I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, Behold me! Behold me!’ To a nation not calling on My Name.

2 I have spread out My hands all the day to a rebellious people, those walking a way not good, after their thoughts;

3 the people provoking Me to my face continually, offering sacrifices in the gardens and burning incense on the bricks,

4 sitting among the graves and spending nights in lookouts, those eating the flesh of swine and the broth of of abominations in their vessels;

5 those saying, ‘Keep yourself away; do not come near to me, for I am set apart from you’—these are smoke in My nostrils, a fire burning all the day!

6 Behold, it is written before My face, and I will not keep silent, but I will repay, and I will pay it back into their bosom,

7 your? iniquities, and the iniquities of your? fathers together.” YHWH has said. “Because they have burned incense on the mountains, and on the hills they have scorned Me, so I will measure out their wages first into their bosom.”

8 Thus says YHWH: “As when the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘You should not destroy it, for blessing is’ in it, so will I do for the sake of My servants, so as not to destroy them all.

9 And I will bring forth from Jacob a seed, and from Judah one inheriting My mountains; and My chosen ones will inherit it, and My servants will dwell there.

10 And Sharon will become as a habitation for the flock, and the Valley of Achor as a resting place for herds, for my people who have sought Me.

11 And you? forsaking YHWH, those forgetful of My holy mountain, of those arranging a table for Gad, and those filling mixed wine for Meni—

12 and I will appoint you? for the sword, and you? will all bow down to the slaughter, because I called, and you? did not answer; I spoke, and you? did not hear; and you? did evil in My eyes, and you? chose that in which I do not take delight.”

13 Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH: “Behold, My servants will eat, and you? will go hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, and you? will go thirsty. Behold, My servants will be glad, and you? will be put to shame.

14 Behold, My servants will sing out from goodness of heart, and you? will cry out from pain of heart, and from a breaking of spirit you? will wail.

15 And you? will leave behind your? name as a curse for My chosen ones—and the Lord YHWH will slay you!—And to His servants He will call out another name,

16 that one blessing himself in the land will bless himself by the God of truth, and the one swearing in the land will swear by the God of truth; for the former troubles will be forgotten, for they will be hidden from My eyes.

17 For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, and they will not come up upon the heart.

18 But rather be glad and rejoice forever and ever in that which I am creating! For behold, I am creating Jerusalem as rejoicing and her people as joy.

19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people; and will not be heard in her any longer the voice of weeping and the voice of crying out.