Yesha`yahu, 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, LORD, 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 angry very sore, LORD, neither remember iniquity forever: see,
look, we beg you, we are all your people. {64:10} Your holy cities are
become a wilderness, Tziyon is become a wilderness, Yerushalayim 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,
LORD? will you hold your shalom, 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 the
LORD, 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 the LORD, 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 Ya`akov, and out of Yehudah 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 `Akhor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have
sought me. {65:11} But you who forsake the LORD, 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 GOD, 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 put to shame;
{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 GOD will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:
{65:16} so that he who blesses himself in the [1>]eretz[<1] shall
bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the
[2>]eretz[<2] 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 [3>]eretz[<3]; 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 Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy. {65:19} I will
rejoice in Yerushalayim, 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 the LORD, 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 the LORD.
{66:1} Thus says the LORD, heaven is my throne, and the
[1>]eretz[<1] 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 the LORD: 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 the LORD, you
who tremble at his word: Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out
for my name's sake, have said, Let the LORD be glorified, that we may
see your joy; but it is those who shall be put to shame. {66:6} A
voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the
LORD that renders recompense to his enemies. {66:7} Before she
travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered
of a man-child. {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 Tziyon travailed, she brought forth her
children. {66:9} Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring
forth? says the LORD: shall I who cause to bring forth shut [the
womb]? says your God. {66:10} Rejoice you with Yerushalayim, 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 the
LORD, Behold, I will extend shalom 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 Yerushalayim. {66:14} You shall see [it],
and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the
tender grass: and the hand of the LORD shall be known toward his
servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies. {66:15}
For, behold, the LORD 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 the LORD execute
judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of the LORD
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 [2>]akbar[<2], they shall
come to an end together, says the LORD. {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 Tuval and Yavan, to the isles 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 the LORD, on horses, and in chariots, and
in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain
Yerushalayim, says the LORD, as the children of Yisra'el bring their
offering in a clean vessel into the house of the LORD. {66:21} Of them
also will I take for [3>]Kohanim[<3] [and] for Levites, says the LORD.
{66:22} For as the new heavens and the new [4>]eretz[<4], which I will
make, shall remain before me, says the LORD, so shall your seed and
your name remain. {66:23} It shall happen, that from one new moon to
another, and from one Shabbat to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, says the LORD. {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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Footnotes:
[1] {65:16} earth
[2] {65:16} earth
[3] {65:17} earth
[1] {66:1} earth
[2] {66:17} mouse
[3] {66:21} priests
[4] {66:22} earth
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