^1 [a]I was ready to respond to those who did not ask,
    to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said: Here I am! Here I am!
    To a nation that did not invoke my name.^(A)
2 I have stretched out my hands all day
    to a rebellious people,
Who walk in a way that is not good,
    following their own designs;^(B)
3 A people who provoke me
    continually to my face,
Offering sacrifices in gardens
    and burning incense on bricks,
⁴ Sitting in tombs
    and spending the night in caves,
Eating the flesh of pigs,
    with broth of unclean meat in their dishes;
⁵ Crying out, “Hold back,
    do not come near me, lest I render you holy!”^[b]
These things are smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that burns all the day.
⁶ See, it stands written before me;
    I will not remain quiet until I have repaid in full
⁷ Your crimes and the crimes of your ancestors as well,
    says the Lord.
Since they burned incense on the mountains,
    and insulted me on the hills,
I will at once pour out in full measure
    their recompense into their laps.

^{8     [c]}Thus says the Lord:
As when the juice is pressed from a cluster,
    and someone says, “Do not destroy it,
    for there is still good in it,”
So will I do for the sake of my servants:
    I will not destroy them all.
⁹ From Jacob I will bring forth offspring,
    from Judah, those who are to possess my mountains;
My chosen ones shall possess the land,
    my servants shall dwell there.
¹⁰ Sharon shall become a pasture for the flocks,
    the Valley of Achor a resting place for the cattle,
    for my people who have sought me.^(C)
11 But you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget my holy mountain,
Who spread a table for Fortune
    and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,^[d]
12 You I will destine for the sword;
    you shall all bow down for slaughter;
Because I called and you did not answer,
    I spoke and you did not listen,
But did what is evil in my sight
    and things I do not delight in, you chose,^(D)
13     therefore thus says the Lord God:
My servants shall eat,
    but you shall go hungry;
My servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
My servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;
¹⁴ My servants shall shout
    for joy of heart,
But you shall cry out for grief of heart,
    and howl for anguish of spirit.
¹⁵ You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones
    when the Lord God slays you,
    and calls his servants by another name.
¹⁶ Whoever invokes a blessing in the land
    shall bless by the God of truth;^[e]
Whoever takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by the God of truth;
For the hardships of the past shall be forgotten
    and hidden from my eyes.

^17 [f]See, I am creating new heavens
    and a new earth;
The former things shall not be remembered
    nor come to mind.^(E)
18 Instead, shout for joy and be glad forever
    in what I am creating.
Indeed, I am creating Jerusalem to be a joy
    and its people to be a delight;
¹⁹ I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and exult in my people.
No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there,
    or the sound of crying;
²⁰ No longer shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    nor anyone who does not live a full lifetime;
One who dies at a hundred years shall be considered a youth,
    and one who falls short of a hundred shall be thought accursed.^(F)
21 They shall build houses and live in them,
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit;
²² They shall not build and others live there;
    they shall not plant and others eat.
As the years of a tree, so the years of my people;
    and my chosen ones shall long enjoy
    the work of their hands.
²³ They shall not toil in vain,
    nor beget children for sudden destruction;
For they shall be a people blessed by the Lord
    and their descendants with them.
²⁴ Before they call, I will answer;
    while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
^25 [g]The wolf and the lamb shall pasture together,
    and the lion shall eat hay like the ox—
    but the serpent’s food shall be dust.^(G)
None shall harm or destroy
    on all my holy mountain, says the Lord.