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Judgment and Salvation

I let myself be found by those who did not seek me.

I said, ‘Here I am; here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name;
2  those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,
3 [fn] me to anger continually to my face, slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden,
- and making smoke offerings on bricks,
- 4 [fn] in graves and spend the night in[fn]
[fn] the flesh of swine
- with[fn] a fragment[fn] of impurity in their vessels,
- 5 [fn] “[fn] You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!”
These are a smoke in my[fn]
- a fire burning all day.
- 6 It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay; and I will repay in[fn] the fold of their garment
7 [fn] together, says Yahweh, because they made smoke offerings on the mountains
- and they taunted me on the hills,
I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.”

8 Thus 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[fn] not destroyingeveryone.[fn]

9 [fn] out from Jacob,and a[fn] from Judah to take possession of my mountain,

and my chosen ones shall inherit it,
- and my servants shall settle there.
- 10 [fn] flocks,[fn] and the valley of Achor a resting place for[fn] herds[fn]
- for my people who have sought me.
- 11 [fn] you[fn] Yahweh, forgetting[fn]
who set a table for Fortune,
- and who[fn] a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,
- 12  and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
because I called, but[fn] you did not answer;
- I spoke, but[fn] you did not listen,
but[fn] you did the evil in my eyes,
- and you chose that in which I do not delight.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:“Look! My servants shall eat but[fn] you, you shall be hungry.
Look! My servants shall drink but[fn] you, you shall be thirsty.
Look! My servants shall rejoice but[fn] you, you shall be ashamed.
14 [fn] but[fn] you, you shall cry out[fn] and howl[fn]
- 15  and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will[fn] his servants another name.
- 16  and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness,
because the former troubles are forgotten,
- and they are hidden from my eyes.

?:? Literally “provoking”

?:? Literally “sitting”

?:? Literally “watches”

?:? Literally “eating”

?:? Or “and”

?:? The reading tradition (Qere) has “broth”

?:? Literally “saying”

?:? Literally “Come near to you”

?:? Literally “nose”

?:? Or “on”

?:? Or “fathers”

?:? Literally “to”

?:? Literally “all”

?:? Hebrew “descendant”

?:? Literally “man”

?:? Literally “of”

?:? Hebrew “flock”

?:? Or “of”

?:? Hebrew “herd”

?:? Or “and”

?:? Literally “forsaking”

?:? Literally “the mountain of my holiness”

?:? Literally “fill”

?:? Or “and”

?:? Literally “from goodness of heart”

?:? Or “and”

?:? Literally “from pain of heart”

?:? Literally “from a breaking of the spirit”

?:? Literally “call”