¹“I am enquired 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 .

²I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people ,

who walk in a way that is not good ,

after their own thoughts ;

³a people who provoke me to my face continually ,

sacrificing in gardens ,

and burning incense on bricks ;

⁴who sit amongst the graves ,

and spend nights in secret places ;

who eat pig ’s meat ,

and broth of abominable things is in their vessels ;

⁵who say, ‘Stay by yourself,

don’t come near to me ,

for I am holier than you .’

These are smoke in my nose,

a fire that burns all day .

⁶“Behold , it is written before me :

I will not keep silence ,

but will repay ,

yes , I will repay into their bosom

⁷your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together ”, says the LORD ,

“who have burnt incense on the mountains ,

and blasphemed me on the hills .

Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom .”

⁸The LORD says ,

“As the new wine is found in the cluster,

and one says , ‘Don’t destroy it , for a blessing is in it :’

so I will do for my servants ’ sake ,

that I may not destroy them all .

⁹I will bring offspring out of Jacob ,

and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains .

My chosen will inherit it ,

and my servants will dwell there .

¹⁰Sharon will 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 .

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 ;

¹²I will destine you to the sword ,

and you will all bow down to the slaughter ;

because when I called , you didn’t answer .

When I spoke , you didn’t listen ;

but you did that which was evil in my eyes ,

and chose that in which I didn’t delight .”

¹³Therefore the Lord GOD says ,

“Behold , my servants will eat,

but you will be hungry ;

behold , my servants will drink ,

but you will be thirsty .

Behold , my servants will rejoice ,

but you will be disappointed.

¹⁴Behold , my servants will sing for joy of heart ,

but you will cry for sorrow of heart ,

and will wail for anguish of spirit .

¹⁵You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen,

and the Lord GOD will kill you .

He will call his servants by another name ,

¹⁶so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;

and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;

because the former troubles are forgotten ,

and because they are hidden from my eyes .

¹⁷“For , behold , I create new heavens and a new earth ;

and the former things will not be remembered ,

nor come into mind .

¹⁸But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create ;

for , behold , I create Jerusalem to be a delight ,

and her people a joy .

¹⁹I will rejoice in Jerusalem ,

and delight in my people ;

and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying

will be heard in her no more .

²⁰“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days ,

nor an old man who has not filled his days ;

for the child will die one hundred years old ,

and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed .

²¹They will build houses and inhabit them .

They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit .

²²They will not build and another inhabit .

They will not plant and another eat;

for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree ,

and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands .

²³They will not labour in vain

nor give birth for calamity;

for they are the offspring of the LORD ’s blessed

and their descendants with them .

²⁴It will happen that before they call , I will answer ;

and while they are yet speaking , I will hear .

²⁵The wolf and the lamb will feed together.

The lion will eat straw like the ox .

Dust will be the serpent ’s food .

They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain ,”

says the LORD .