Isaiah 66

Isaiah 66, verse 1. ¹Thus says the Lord: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is the footstool of My feet. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or what kind is the place of My rest? Isaiah 66, verse 2. ²For My hand made all these things, and all these things are Mine,” says the Lord; “and upon whom will I show respect, but to the humble and the peaceful and to him who trembles at My words. Isaiah 66, verse 3. ³But the lawless man who sacrifices a calf is as he who kills a dog; and he who offers a grain offering, as he who offers the blood of a pig; and he who offers incense for a memorial, as he who is a blasphemer. These chose their ways and their abominations, which their soul willed. Isaiah 66, verse 4. ⁴But I will choose their mockeries, and I will repay them; because I called, but they did not obey Me; I spoke, but they did not listen; but they did evil in My sight, and things I did not will, they chose.” Isaiah 66, verse 5. ⁵Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word. Speak, our brethren, to those who hate us and detest us, that the Lord's name may be glorified and seen in their gladness, so they may be ashamed. Isaiah 66, verse 6. ⁶A voice of crying from the city, a voice from the temple, the voice of the Lord is fully repaying His enemies. Isaiah 66, verse 7. ⁷“Before she travails in labor to give birth, before the pain of birth pangs comes on, she escapes it and bears a male. Isaiah 66, verse 8. ⁸Who has heard such a thing, and who has seen anything like this? Has the earth travailed in one day, or has a nation given birth at once? For Zion travailed and gave birth to her children. Isaiah 66, verse 9. ⁹But I raised this expectation, yet you did not remember Me,” says the Lord. “Behold, do I not cause one woman to beget, but another to be sterile?” says God. Isaiah 66, verse 10. ¹⁰“Be glad, O Jerusalem, and celebrate holy days in her. All you who love her, rejoice exceedingly, and all you who mourn over her; Isaiah 66, verse 11. ¹¹that you may nurse and be satisfied by the breast of her consolation; that you may take pleasure in nursing because of the entrance of her glory.” Isaiah 66, verse 12. ¹²For thus says the Lord: “Behold, I will turn to them like a river of peace and like a brook, to flood them with the glory of the Gentiles. Their children shall be taken up on shoulders and comforted on knees. Isaiah 66, verse 13. ¹³Like someone a mother comforts, so also will I comfort you, and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Isaiah 66, verse 14. ¹⁴You shall see, and your heart will rejoice. Your bones shall rise up like a pasture, and the Lord's hand shall be known by those who fear Him; but He shall threaten the disobedient. Isaiah 66, verse 15. ¹⁵For behold, the Lord shall come like a fire, and His chariots like a sudden blast of wind, to render His vengeance with anger and His renunciation with a flame of fire. Isaiah 66, verse 16. ¹⁶For all the earth shall be judged in the fire of the Lord, and all flesh with His sword; and many shall be wounded by the Lord. Isaiah 66, verse 17. ¹⁷“Those who purify and cleanse themselves in the gardens and porches, who eat the meat of a pig or any abomination, they shall be destroyed together at the same time,” says the Lord; Isaiah 66, verse 18. ¹⁸“and I know their works and their reasoning. I am coming to gather all the nations and tongues, and they shall come and see My glory. Isaiah 66, verse 19. ¹⁹And I will leave signs upon them, and those among them who are saved, I will send forth to the Gentiles: to Tarshish, and Pul and Lud and Tubal, and to Greece and to the coastlands far off, to those who have not heard My name, nor seen My glory; and they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. Isaiah 66, verse 20. ²⁰They shall bring your brethren from among all the Gentiles as a gift to the Lord, with horses and chariots, in litters drawn by mules and covered with sunshades, to the holy city of Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “just as the children of Israel would bring Me their sacrifices with psalms into the house of the Lord. Isaiah 66, verse 21. ²¹I shall take some of them to be My priests and Levites,” says the Lord. Isaiah 66, verse 22. ²²“For just as the new heaven and the new earth which I make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord, “so shall your seed and your name remain. Isaiah 66, verse 23. ²³It shall come to pass from month to month and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall worship before Me in Jerusalem,” says the Lord. Isaiah 66, verse 24. ²⁴“They shall go forth and see the dead bodies of the men who transgressed against Me, for their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be extinguished; and they shall be a vision to all flesh.”