Isaiah 65

Isaiah 65, verse 1. ¹“I was manifest to those who did not seek Me; I was found by those who did not ask for Me. I said, ‘Behold, I am here,’ to a nation that did not call on My name. Isaiah 65, verse 2. ²I stretched out My hands the whole day long to a people who disobeyed and contradicted Me, who did not walk in the true way, but after their sins. Isaiah 65, verse 3. ³This is a people who provoke Me continually to My face. They sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on bricks to the demons, which do not exist; Isaiah 65, verse 4. ⁴and they sleep in graves and caves for the sake of dreams, they who eat swine's flesh and the sauce of their sacrifices, which defiles all their vessels; Isaiah 65, verse 5. ⁵who say, ‘Stay away from me; do not come near me, for I am clean.’ This is the smoke of My anger; a fire burns in it all day long. Isaiah 65, verse 6. ⁶Behold, it is written before Me: I will not be silent,” says the Lord, “until I repay into their bosom their sins and the sins of their fathers, Isaiah 65, verse 7. ⁷who burned incense on the mountains and reproached Me on the hills. I will repay their works into their bosom.” Isaiah 65, verse 8. ⁸Thus says the Lord: “As the grape shall be found in a cluster, and they shall say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing from the Lord in it,’ so shall I do for the sake of him who serves Me. For his sake I will not destroy them all. Isaiah 65, verse 9. ⁹I will bring forth the seed of Jacob and the seed of Judah, and they shall inherit My holy mountain. My elect shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there. Isaiah 65, verse 10. ¹⁰There shall be in the forest a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor shall be for the resting place of herds for My people who sought Me. Isaiah 65, verse 11. ¹¹But you are those who forsook Me, and forget My holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill a drink-offering to Fortune. Isaiah 65, verse 12. ¹²I will deliver you to the sword, and all of you shall fall in the slaughter; because I called you, but you did not obey; I spoke, but you refused to listen. You did evil in My sight, and did not choose the things I willed.” Isaiah 65, verse 13. ¹³Therefore, thus says the Lord: “Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall hunger. Behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall thirst. Behold, My servants shall be glad, but you shall be ashamed. Isaiah 65, verse 14. ¹⁴Behold, My servants shall rejoice exceedingly in gladness, but you shall cry out because of the pain in your heart; and you shall wail from the crushing of your spirit. Isaiah 65, verse 15. ¹⁵For you shall leave your name as an example of excess to My elect, and the Lord shall destroy you. But those who serve Him shall be called by a new name, Isaiah 65, verse 16. ¹⁶which shall be blessed upon the earth. For they shall bless the true God, and those who swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget their former tribulation, and it shall not come into their heart. Isaiah 65, verse 17. ¹⁷“For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and they shall not remember the former things, nor shall these things come into their heart. Isaiah 65, verse 18. ¹⁸But they shall find gladness and exceeding joy in her, for behold, I will make Jerusalem an exceeding joy, and My people gladness. Isaiah 65, verse 19. ¹⁹I will rejoice exceedingly in Jerusalem, and I will be glad in My people. There shall no longer be heard in her a voice of weeping, nor a voice of crying. Isaiah 65, verse 20. ²⁰There shall not be the untimely death of a child there, nor shall there be an old man who does not fulfill his time. For a young man shall be a hundred years old, but a sinner who dies at a hundred years old shall be cursed. Isaiah 65, verse 21. ²¹They shall build houses and dwell in them; and they shall plant vineyards and eat their produce. Isaiah 65, verse 22. ²²But they shall not build, and others inhabit; and they shall not plant, and others eat. For according to the days of the tree of life, so shall be the days of My people, and the works of their labors shall not grow old. Isaiah 65, verse 23. ²³My elect shall not labor in vain, nor shall they bear children to be a curse; for they are a seed blessed by God; and their offspring shall be with them. Isaiah 65, verse 24. ²⁴It shall be, before they cry out, I will listen to them; while they are still speaking, I will say, ‘What is it?’ Isaiah 65, verse 25. ²⁵The wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion, like the ox, shall eat chaff; and the serpent, the ground as bread. They shall not injure, neither destroy in My holy mountain,” says the Lord.