Isaiah 66:1-8 ▼

1 Thus says YHWH: “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is the stool for My feet! Where is this house for Me that you⁺ will build, and where is this place of My rest?

2 And all these things My own hand has made, and all these things have come to be!” a declaration of YHWH. “And to this one I will look: To the poor and stricken one in spirit, and who trembles at My word.

3 The one slaughtering an ox strikes down a man; the one sacrificing a lamb breaks the neck a dog; the one offering a grain offering offers the blood of a pig; the one burning incense blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations,

4 I also will choose their punishment, and their fears I will bring upon them, because I called and no one answered; I spoke and no one listened; and they did the evil in My eyes, and they chose that in which I did not delight.”

5 “Hear the word of YHWH, you who tremble at His word! Your⁺ brothers who hate you⁺ and cast you⁺ out for the sake of My name have said, ‘Let YHWH be glorified, that we might look on your⁺ joy!’ And they will be put to shame.”

6 The voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple—it is the voice of YHWH, repaying recompence to His enemies!

7 “Before she was writhing, she gave birth; before pain came to her, then she delivered a male.

8 Who has heard such as this? Who has seen these things? Can a land be born in one day? Can a nation be born in one moment? For she begain writhing—as soon as Zion gave birth to her sons.