ISAIAH 65-66

¹ I said, ‘Here I am, here I am!’ to a nation that was not calling on my name.

² Following their own thoughts;

³ Sacrificing in gardens and making sacrificial smoke on bricks.

⁴ And the broth of foul things is in their vessels.

⁵ These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all day long.

⁶ I will repay them in full measure

⁷ I will first measure out their wages in full.”

⁸ I will not destroy them all.

⁹ And my servants will reside there.

¹⁰ For my people who search for me.

¹¹ And those filling up cups of mixed wine for the god of Destiny.

¹² And you chose what displeased me.”

¹³ Look! My servants will rejoice, but you will suffer shame.

¹⁴ And you will wail because of a broken spirit.

¹⁵ But his own servants he will call by another name;

¹⁶ They will be concealed from my eyes.

¹⁷ Nor will they come up into the heart.

¹⁸ And her people a cause for exultation.

¹⁹ No more will there be heard in her the sound of weeping or a cry of distress.”

²⁰ And the sinner will be cursed, even though he is a hundred years of age.

²¹ And they will plant vineyards and eat their fruitage.

²² And the work of their hands my chosen ones will enjoy to the full.

²³ And their descendants with them.

²⁴ While they are yet speaking, I will hear.

²⁵ They will do no harm nor cause any ruin in all my holy mountain,” says Jehovah.

¹ And where is my resting-place?”

² To the one humble and broken in spirit who trembles at my word.

³ And they take delight in what is disgusting.

⁴ And they chose to do what displeased me.”

⁵ And they are the ones who will be put to shame.”

⁶ It is the sound of Jehovah repaying his enemies what they deserve.

⁷ Before birth pangs came to her, she delivered a male child.

⁸ Yet, as soon as Zion went into labor, she gave birth to her sons.

⁹ “Or would I cause the birth and then shut the womb?” says your God.

¹⁰ Exult greatly with her, all you who are in mourning over her,

¹¹ And you will drink deeply and find delight in the abundance of her glory.

¹² And you will be bounced on the knees.

¹³ And over Jerusalem you will be comforted.

¹⁴ But he will denounce his enemies.”

¹⁵ To rebuke with flames of fire.

¹⁶ And the slain of Jehovah will be many.

¹⁷ “Those sanctifying themselves and cleansing themselves to enter the gardens following one who is in the center, those eating the flesh of pigs and loathsome things and mice, they will all come to their end together,” declares Jehovah.

¹⁸ “Since I know about their works and their thoughts, I am coming to gather people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.”

¹⁹ “I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who escape to the nations—to Tarʹshish, Pul, and Lud, those who draw the bow, to Tuʹbal and Jaʹvan, and to the faraway islands—who have not heard a report about me or seen my glory; and they will proclaim my glory among the nations.

²⁰ They will bring all your brothers out of all the nations as a gift to Jehovah, on horses, in chariots, in covered wagons, on mules, and on swift camels, up to my holy mountain, Jerusalem,” says Jehovah, “just as when the people of Israel bring their gift in a clean vessel into the house of Jehovah.”

²¹ “I will also take some for the priests and for the Levites,” says Jehovah.

²² “For just as the new heavens and the new earth that I am making will remain standing before me,” declares Jehovah, “so your offspring and your name will remain.”

²³ All flesh will come in to bow down before me,” says Jehovah.

²⁴ And they will become something repulsive to all people.”