Isaiah, starting at chapter 64
{64:1} Oh that you would tear the heavens, that you would come down,
that the mountains might quake at your presence, {64:2} as when
fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to
boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the
nations may tremble at your presence! {64:3} When you did
terrible things which we didn't look for, you came down, the
mountains quaked at your presence. {64:4} For from of old men
have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither has the eye
seen a God besides you, who works for him who waits for him.
{64:5} You meet him who rejoices and works righteousness, those
who remember you in your ways: behold, you were angry, and we
sinned: in them [have we been] of long time; and shall we be
saved? {64:6} For we are all become as one who is unclean, and
all our righteousness are as a polluted garment: and we all do
fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, take us
away. {64:7} There is none who calls on your name, who stirs up
himself to take hold of you; for you have hid your face from
us, and have consumed us by means of our iniquities. {64:8} But
now, Yahweh, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you our
potter; and we all are the work of your hand. {64:9} Don't be
furious, Yahweh, neither remember iniquity forever: see, look,
we beg you, we are all your people. {64:10} Your holy cities
are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem
a desolation. {64:11} Our holy and our beautiful house, where
our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our
pleasant places are laid waste. {64:12} Will you refrain
yourself for these things, Yahweh? will you hold your peace,
and afflict us very sore?
{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 did not
answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; 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 vexation 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 hid
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 the fruit
of them. {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.
{66:1} Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my
footstool: what manner of house will you build to me? and what
place shall be my rest? {66:2} For all these things has my hand
made, and [so] all these things came to be, says Yahweh: but to
this man will I look, even to him who is poor and of a contrite
spirit, and who trembles at my word. {66:3} He who kills an ox
is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who
breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who
offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who
blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and
their soul delights in their abominations: {66:4} I also will
choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them;
because when I called, none did answer; when I spoke, they did
not hear: but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and
chose that in which I didn't delight. {66:5} Hear the word of
Yahweh, you who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate
you, who cast you out for my name's sake, have said, Let Yahweh
be glorified, that we may see your joy; but it is those who
shall be disappointed. {66:6} A voice of tumult from the city,
a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that renders
recompense to his enemies. {66:7} Before she travailed, she
brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a
boy. {66:8} Who has heard such a thing? who has seen such
things? Shall a land be born in one day? shall a nation be
brought forth at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children. {66:9} Shall I bring to the birth,
and not cause to bring forth? says Yahweh: shall I who cause to
bring forth shut [the womb]? says your God. {66:10} Rejoice you
with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her:
rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her; {66:11}
that you may suck and be satisfied with the breasts of her
consolations; that you may milk out, and be delighted with the
abundance of her glory. {66:12} For thus says Yahweh, Behold, I
will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the
nations like an overflowing stream: and you shall suck [of it];
you shall be borne on the side, and shall be dandled on the
knees. {66:13} As one whom his mother comforts, so will I
comfort you; and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. {66:14}
You shall see [it], and your heart shall rejoice, and your
bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of
Yahweh shall be known toward his servants; and he will have
indignation against his enemies. {66:15} For, behold, Yahweh
will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the
whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke
with flames of fire. {66:16} For by fire will Yahweh execute
judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of
Yahweh shall be many. {66:17} Those who sanctify themselves and
purify themselves [to go] to the gardens, behind one in the
midst, eating pig's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse,
they shall come to an end together, says Yahweh. {66:18} For I
[know] their works and their thoughts: [the time] comes, that I
will gather all nations and languages; and they shall come, and
shall see my glory. {66:19} I will set a sign among them, and I
will send such as escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish,
Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to the
islands afar off, who have not heard my fame, neither have seen
my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
{66:20} They shall bring all your brothers out of all the
nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, and in chariots,
and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel
bring their offering in a clean vessel into the house of
Yahweh. {66:21} Of them also will I take for priests [and] for
Levites, says Yahweh. {66:22} For as the new heavens and the
new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, says
Yahweh, so shall your seed and your name remain. {66:23} It
shall happen, that from one new moon to another, and from one
Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me,
says Yahweh. {66:24} They shall go forth, and look on the dead
bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their
worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and
they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
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