Isaiah 66:1-9 ▼

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.

9 Will I break open and not deliver?” Says YHWH: “Or will I, cause to bring forth, and shut up?” Says your God.