Isaiah 65

Judgment and Salvation

¹“I let myself be sought by those who did not ask;

I said, ‘Here I am; here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name;

those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,

slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden,

⁴who sit in graves[#Literally “sitting”]

who eat the flesh of swine

⁵who say, “Keep to yourself![#Literally “saying”; #Literally “Come near to you”]

These are a smoke in my nostrils,

⁶Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay;

⁷your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together, says Yahweh,[#Or “fathers”]

because they made smoke offerings on the mountains

I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.”

⁸Thus says Yahweh: “Just as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say ‘You must not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for the sake of my servants by not destroying everyone.[#Literally “to”; #Literally “all”]

⁹And I will bring descendant s out from Jacob,[#Hebrew “descendant”]

and my chosen ones shall inherit it,

¹⁰And Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,[#Literally “of”; #Hebrew “flock”]

¹¹But you who forsake Yahweh,[#Or “and”; #Literally “forsaking”]

who set a table for Fortune,

¹²and I will remit you to the sword,

because I called, but you did not answer;

but you did the evil in my eyes,

¹³Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! My servants shall eat but you, you shall be hungry.

Look! My servants shall drink but you, you shall be thirsty.

Look! My servants shall rejoice but you, you shall be ashamed.

¹⁴Look! My servants shall shout for joy, but you, you shall cry out for pain and howl for sadness.[#Literally “from goodness of heart”; #Or “and”; #Literally “from pain of heart”; #Literally “from a breaking of the spirit”]

¹⁵And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse,

¹⁶Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness,

because the former troubles are forgotten,

New Creation

¹⁷For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth,

and they shall not come to mind.

For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing,

¹⁹And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem,

and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it,

²⁰There will no longer be a nursing infant who lives only a few days,[#Literally “of”]

for the boy will die a hundred years old,

²¹And they shall build houses and inhabit them,

²²They shall not build and another inhabit;

For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree,

²³They shall not labor for nothing,

for they shall be offspring blessed by Yahweh,

²⁴And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer;

²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one,

They shall do no evil,