Isaiah 65 - Jeremiah 1
English Standard Version
Judgment and Salvation
65 (A)I was ready to be sought by (B)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[a] my name.
2 (C)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;
3 a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
(D)sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;
4 who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
(E)who eat pig's flesh,
and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
5 who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
(F)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, (G)it is written before me:
(H)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(I)I will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities (J)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(K)because they made offerings on the mountains
(L)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[b]
8 Thus says the Lord:
(M)“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,
(N)and not destroy them all.
9 (O)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.
10 (P)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and (Q)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people (R)who have sought me.
11 But (S)you who forsake the Lord,
who forget (T)my holy mountain,
who (U)set a table for Fortune
and (V)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
12 I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
(W)because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not listen,
(X)but you did what was evil in my eyes
and chose what I did not delight in.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, (Y)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;
14 behold, (Z)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out for pain of heart
and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
15 You shall leave your name to (AA)my chosen (AB)for a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants (AC)he will call by another name,
16 so that he who (AD)blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by (AE)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by (AF)the God of truth;
(AG)because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, (AH)I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, (AI)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 (AJ)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
(AK)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.
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 (AL)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and (AM)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (AN)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (AO)They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
(AP)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[c] the work of their hands.
23 (AQ)They shall not labor in vain
(AR)or bear children for calamity,[d]
for (AS)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
24 (AT)Before they call I will answer;
(AU)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 (AV)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and (AW)dust shall be the serpent's food.
(AX)They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
The Humble and Contrite in Spirit
66 (AY)Thus says the Lord:
(AZ)“Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
what is the house that you would build for me,
and what is the place of my rest?
2 (BA)All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
(BB)But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
3 (BC)“He who slaughters an ox is like one who kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog's neck;
he who presents a grain offering, like one who offers (BD)pig's blood;
he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
(BE)These have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
4 (BF)I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and bring (BG)their fears upon them,
(BH)because when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen;
(BI)but they did what was evil in my eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight.”
5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at his word:
“Your brothers who hate you
and cast you out for my name's sake
have said, (BJ)‘Let the Lord be glorified,
that we may see your joy’;
but it is they who shall be put to shame.
6 “The sound of an uproar from the city!
A sound from the temple!
The sound of the Lord,
(BK)rendering recompense to his enemies!
Rejoice with Jerusalem
7 (BL)“Before she was in labor
she gave birth;
before her pain came upon her
she delivered a son.
8 Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment?
For (BM)as soon as Zion was in labor
she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the point of birth and not cause to bring forth?”
says the Lord;
“shall I, who cause to bring forth, shut the womb?”
says your God.
10 (BN)“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her;
11 that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast;
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious abundance.”[e]
12 For thus says the Lord:
(BO)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (BP)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
so (BQ)I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
(BR)your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and (BS)the hand of the Lord shall be known to his servants,
and he shall show his indignation against his enemies.
Final Judgment and Glory of the Lord
15 “For behold, (BT)the Lord will come in fire,
and (BU)his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For (BV)by fire (BW)will the Lord enter into judgment,
and by his sword, with all flesh;
and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
17 (BX)“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, (BY)eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.
18 “For I know[f] their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming[g] (BZ)to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory, 19 and I will set a sign among them. And from them (CA)I will send survivors to the nations, to (CB)Tarshish, (CC)Pul, and (CD)Lud, who draw the bow, to (CE)Tubal and (CF)Javan, (CG)to the coastlands far away, (CH)that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 (CI)And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations (CJ)as an offering to the Lord, on horses and in chariots and in litters and on mules and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21 (CK)And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
22 “For as (CL)the new heavens and the new earth
that I make
shall remain before me, says the Lord,
so (CM)shall your offspring and your name remain.
23 (CN)From new moon to new moon,
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
declares the Lord.
24 “And they shall go out and look on the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against me. For (CO)their worm shall not die, (CP)their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
1 The words of Jeremiah, the son of Hilkiah, one (CQ)of the priests who were in (CR)Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, 2 to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of (CS)Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in (CT)the thirteenth year of his reign. 3 It came also in the days of (CU)Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, and (CV)until the end of the eleventh year of (CW)Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, (CX)until the captivity of Jerusalem in the fifth month.
The Call of Jeremiah
4 Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying,
5 (CY)“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you,
and before you were born (CZ)I consecrated you;
I appointed you a prophet (DA)to the nations.”
6 Then I said, “Ah, Lord God! Behold, (DB)I do not know how to speak, (DC)for I am only a youth.” 7 But the Lord said to me,
“Do not say, ‘I am only a youth’;
for to all to whom I send you, you shall go,
and (DD)whatever I command you, you shall speak.
8 (DE)Do not be afraid of them,
(DF)for I am with you to deliver you,
declares the Lord.”
9 (DG)Then the Lord put out his hand and (DH)touched my mouth. And the Lord said to me,
“Behold, I have put (DI)my words in your mouth.
10 See, I have set you this day (DJ)over nations and over kingdoms,
(DK)to pluck up and to break down,
to destroy and to overthrow,
to build and to plant.”
11 And the word of the Lord came to me, saying, (DL)“Jeremiah, what do you see?” And I said, “I see an almond[h] branch.” 12 Then the Lord said to me, “You have seen well, for I am watching over my word to perform it.”
13 The word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying, “What do you see?” And I said, “I see (DM)a boiling pot, facing away (DN)from the north.” 14 Then the Lord said to me, (DO)“Out of the north disaster[i] shall be let loose upon all the inhabitants of the land. 15 For behold, (DP)I am calling all the tribes of the kingdoms of the north, declares the Lord, (DQ)and they shall come, and every one shall set his throne at the entrance of the gates of Jerusalem, against all its walls all around and against all the cities of Judah. 16 And (DR)I will declare my judgments against them, for all their evil (DS)in forsaking me. (DT)They have made offerings to other gods and (DU)worshiped the works of their own hands. 17 But you, (DV)dress yourself for work;[j] arise, and (DW)say to them everything that I command you. (DX)Do not be dismayed by them, lest I dismay you before them. 18 And I, behold, I make you this day (DY)a fortified city, (DZ)an iron pillar, and (EA)bronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land. 19 (EB)They will fight against you, but they shall not prevail against you, for (EC)I am with you, declares the Lord, to deliver you.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 65:1 Or that did not call upon
- Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap
- Isaiah 65:22 Hebrew shall wear out
- Isaiah 65:23 Or for sudden terror
- Isaiah 66:11 Or breast
- Isaiah 66:18 Septuagint, Syriac; Hebrew lacks know
- Isaiah 66:18 Hebrew and it is coming
- Jeremiah 1:11 Almond sounds like the Hebrew for watching (compare verse 12)
- Jeremiah 1:14 The Hebrew word can mean evil, harm, or disaster, depending on the context; so throughout Jeremiah
- Jeremiah 1:17 Hebrew gird up your loins
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