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
awesome 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. We have been in sin for a long time; and shall we be
saved? {64:6} For we have all become as one who is unclean, and
all our righteousness is as a polluted garment: and we all 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 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 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 delivered a son.
{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 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 nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts;
that you may drink deeply, 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 will nurse. You will be carried on her side,
and will be dandled on her knees.
{66:13} As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you; and
you will be comforted in Jerusalem."
{66:14} You will 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 your seed and your
name shall 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 will be loathsome to all mankind."
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