LEB ISA chapter 65

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 destroying everyone.[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.

New Creation

17 am about to create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered,

and they shall not[fn]
18 over what I am about to create! For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing,
- and her people as a source of joy.
- 19  and I will rejoice over my people,
and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it,
- or[fn] the sound of a cry for help.
- 20 [fn] days, or[fn] an old man who does not fill his days,
for the boy will die[fn]
- and the one who[fn] [fn] will be [fn] accursed.
- 21 them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
- 22  they shall not plant and another eat.
For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree,
- and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.
- 23  and they shall not give birth to horror,
for they[fn] Yahweh,
- and their descendants with them.
- 24  while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.
- 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
  - but[fn] dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall do no evil,
- and they shall not destroy on all[fn] says Yahweh.

65:? Literally “provoking”

65:? Literally “sitting”

65:? Literally “watches”

65:? Literally “eating”

65:? Or “and”

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

65:? Literally “saying”

65:? Literally “Come near to you”

65:? Literally “nose”

65:? Or “on”

65:? Or “fathers”

65:8 Literally “to”

65:8 Literally “all”

65:8 Hebrew “descendant”

65:8 Literally “man”

65:8 Literally “of”

65:8 Hebrew “flock”

65:8 Or “of”

65:8 Hebrew “herd”

65:8 Or “and”

65:8 Literally “forsaking”

65:8 Literally “the mountain of my holiness”

65:8 Literally “fill”

65:8 Or “and”

65:13 Or “and”

65:13 Literally “from goodness of heart”

65:13 Or “and”

65:13 Literally “from pain of heart”

65:13 Literally “from a breaking of the spirit”

65:13 Literally “call”

65:13 Literally “go up to heart”

65:13 Or “and”

65:13 Literally “of”

65:13 Or “and”

65:13 Literally “a son of a hundred year”

65:13 Literally “misses”

65:13 Literally “a son of a hundred year”

65:13 Literally “treated”

65:13 Literally “the offspring of the blessing of”

65:13 Or “and”

65:13 Literally “the mountain of my holiness”

LEB ISA Chapter 65