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Isaiah 65 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Judgment and Salvation

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 - I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by[fn] my name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 - a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:4 - who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
who eat pig’s flesh,
and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - Behold, it is written before me:
“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their lap
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,
says the LORD;
because they made offerings on the mountains
and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - Thus says the LORD:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
for there is a blessing in it,’
so I will do for my servants’ sake,
and not destroy them all.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:9 - I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
and my servants shall dwell there.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:10 - Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people who have sought me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:11 - But you who forsake the LORD,
who forget my holy mountain,
who set a table for Fortune
and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 - I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not listen,
but you did what was evil in my eyes
and chose what I did not delight in.”
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 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;
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:14 - behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out for pain of heart
and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:15 - You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse,
and the Lord GOD will put you to death,
but his servants he will call by another name,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:16 - so that he who blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - “For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18 - But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:21 - They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[fn] the work of their hands.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,[fn]
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD,
and their descendants with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:24 - Before they call I will answer;
while they are yet speaking I will hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the LORD.
ESV Footnotes
Or that did not call upon
Or I will first measure their payment into their lap
Hebrew shall wear out
Or for sudden terror
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