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Isaiah 65
International Standard Version

God’s Response

65 “I let myself be sought by those who didn’t ask for me;[a]
    I let myself be found by those who didn’t seek me.
I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
    to a nation that didn’t call on my name.
2 I held out my hands all day long
    to a disobedient[b] people,
who walk in a way that isn’t good,
    following their own inclinations—
3 a people who continually provoke me to my face;
    they[c] keep sacrificing in gardens
        and waving their hands[d] over stone[e] altars;
4 who sit among graves,
    and spend the night in secret places;
who eat pigs’ meat,
    with the broth[f] of detestable things in[g] their pots;
5 who say, ‘Keep to yourself!’
    ‘Don’t touch[h] me!’ and ‘I am[i] too holy for you!’

“Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that keeps burning all day long.
6 Watch out! It stands written before me:
    ‘I won’t keep silent, but I will pay back in full;
        I’ll indeed repay into[j] their laps
7 both your iniquities and your ancestors’[k] iniquities together,’’
    says the Lord.
“Because they offered incense on the mountains
    and insulted me on hills,[l]
I’ll measure into[m] their laps
    full payment for their earlier actions.”

A Remnant will be Preserved

8 This is what the Lord says:
    “Just as new wine is found in the cluster,
and people have said,[n] ‘Don’t destroy it,
    for there is a gift in it,’
so I’ll act for my servants’ sake,
    by not destroying them all.
9 I’ll bring forth descendants from Jacob,
    and from Judah they[o] will inherit[p] my mountains;
my chosen people will inherit it,
    and my servants will live there.
10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,
    and the Valley of Achor a fold for herds,[q]
        for my people who have sought me.
11 But as for you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget my holy mountain,
who spread a table for Fortune[r]
    and[s] fill drink offerings[t] for Destiny,[u]
12 I’ll consign[v] you to the sword,
    and all of you will bend down for the slaughter—
because when I called, you didn’t answer,
    when I spoke, you didn’t listen;
but you did what was evil in my sight,
    and chose what I took no pleasure in.”

The Righteous and Wicked Contrasted

13 Therefore, this is what the Lord[w] says:
“See, my servants will eat,
    but you’ll go hungry;
my servants will drink,
    but you’ll go thirsty;
my servants will rejoice,
    but you’ll be put to shame.
14 My servants will sing in gladness[x] of heart,
    but you’ll cry for help[y] from anguish of heart,
        and you’ll howl from brokenness of spirit.
15 You’ll leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death permanently.[z]
16 Then whoever takes an oath[aa] by the God of faithfulness,
    and whoever takes an oath in the land,
        will swear by the God of faithfulness,
because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

A New Universe

17 Take notice! I’m about to create new heavens
    and a new earth;
the former things won’t be remembered,
    nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad[ab] and rejoice[ac] forever
    in what I am creating,
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,
    and its people as a delight.
19 I’ll rejoice over Jerusalem,
    and take delight in my people;
no longer will the sound of weeping be heard in it,
    nor the cry of distress.

20 “And[ad] there will no longer be in it
    a young boy[ae] who lives only a few days,
        or an old person who does not live out his days;
for one who dies at a hundred years will be thought a mere youth,
    and one who falls short of a hundred years will be considered accursed.
21 People[af] will build houses and live in them;
    They’ll plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They won’t build for others to inhabit;
    they won’t plant for others to eat—
for like the lifetime[ag] of a tree,[ah] so will the lifetime[ai] of my people be,
    and my chosen ones will long enjoy[aj] the work of their hands.
23 They won’t toil in vain
    nor bear children doomed to misfortune,
for they will be offspring blessed[ak] by the Lord,
    they and their descendants with them.
24 Before they call, I will answer,
    while they are still speaking, I’ll hear.

25 “The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox;
but as for the serpent—
    its food will be dust!
They won’t harm or destroy
    on my entire holy mountain,”

says the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:1 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads ask
  2. Isaiah 65:2 So 1QIsaa; MT reads an obstinate
  3. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads who
  4. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and offering incense
  5. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read brick
  6. Isaiah 65:4 So 1QIsaa MTqere LXX Targ Vulg; MT reads violence; or crumbs
  7. Isaiah 65:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in
  8. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read come near to
  9. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read for I am
  10. Isaiah 65:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read upon
  11. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX Syr read both their iniquities and their
  12. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the hills
  13. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa MTqere; MT LXX read upon
  14. Isaiah 65:8 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read say
  15. Isaiah 65:9 Lit. he; so 1QIsaa LXX
  16. Isaiah 65:9 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads Judah, the one about to inherit
  17. Isaiah 65:10 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads a place for herds to lie down
  18. Isaiah 65:11 I.e. Fortune personified as a god
  19. Isaiah 65:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX reads and who
  20. Isaiah 65:11 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read cups of mixed wine, or mixing vessels
  21. Isaiah 65:11 I.e. Destiny personified as a god
  22. Isaiah 65:12 Lit. destine
  23. Isaiah 65:13 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsaa reads Adonai; MT reads Lord God
  24. Isaiah 65:14 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads out of gladness
  25. Isaiah 65:14 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read cry out
  26. Isaiah 65:15 Or for good; so 1QIsaa; MT LXX reads but he will call his servants by a different name
  27. Isaiah 65:16 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read whoever invokes a blessing in the land will bless
  28. Isaiah 65:18 Sing. 1QIsaa; pl. MT
  29. Isaiah 65:18 Sing. 1QIsaa; pl. 1QIsab MT
  30. Isaiah 65:20 So 1QIsaa LXX; 1QIsab MT lack And
  31. Isaiah 65:20 So 1QIsaa; 1QIsab MT read an infant; cf. 49:15
  32. Isaiah 65:21 Lit. They
  33. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. days
  34. Isaiah 65:22 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the tree
  35. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. days
  36. Isaiah 65:22 Lit. consume or wear out
  37. Isaiah 65:23 Sing. 1QIsaa LXX; pl. 1QIsab MT
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Isaiah 65
Lexham English Bible

Judgment and Salvation

65 “I let myself be sought by those who did not ask;
    I let myself be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, ‘Here I am; here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name;
2     I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people,
those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,
3     the people who provoke[a] me to anger continually to my face,
slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden,
    and making smoke offerings on bricks,
4 who sit[b] in graves
    and spend the night in secret places,[c]
who eat[d] the flesh of swine
    with[e] a fragment[f] of impurity in their vessels,
5 who say,[g] “Keep to yourself![h]
    You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,[i]
    a fire burning all day.
6 Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay;
    and I will repay in[j] the fold of their garment
7 your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors[k] together, says Yahweh,
because they made smoke offerings on the mountains
    and they taunted me on the hills,
I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.”

8 Thus says Yahweh: “Just as the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say ‘You must not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for the sake of my servants by[l] not destroying everyone.[m]

9 And I will bring descendant s[n] out from Jacob,
    and a people[o] from Judah to take possession of my mountain,
and my chosen ones shall inherit it,
    and my servants shall settle there.
10 And Sharon shall become a pasture for[p] flocks,[q]
    and the valley of Achor a resting place for[r] herds[s]
    for my people who have sought me.
11 But[t] you who forsake[u] Yahweh,
    forgetting my holy mountain,[v]
who set a table for Fortune,
    and who pour out[w] a jug of mixed wine for Destiny,
12 and I will remit you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
because I called, but[x] you did not answer;
    I spoke, but[y] you did not listen,
but[z] you did the evil in my eyes,
    and you chose that in which I do not delight.”

13 Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh:

“Look! My servants shall eat but[aa] you, you shall be hungry.
Look! My servants shall drink but[ab] you, you shall be thirsty.
Look! My servants shall rejoice but[ac] you, you shall be ashamed.
14 Look! My servants shall shout for joy,[ad] but[ae] you, you shall cry out for pain[af] and howl for sadness.[ag]
15 And you shall leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse,
    and the Lord Yahweh will kill you, and he will give[ah] his servants another name.
16 Whoever blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of trustworthiness,
    and the one who swears an oath in the land shall swear by the God of trustworthiness,
because the former troubles are forgotten,
    and they are hidden from my eyes.

New Creation

17 For look! I am about to create new heavens and a new earth,
    and the former things shall not be remembered,
and they shall not come to mind.[ai]
18     But rejoice and shout in exultation forever and ever over what I am about to create!
For look! I am about to create Jerusalem as a source of rejoicing,
    and her people as a source of joy.
19 And I will shout in exultation over Jerusalem,
    and I will rejoice over my people,
and the sound of weeping shall no longer be heard in it,
    or[aj] the sound of a cry for help.
20 There will no longer be a nursing infant who lives only a few[ak] days,
    or[al] an old man who does not fill his days,
for the boy will die a hundred years old,[am]
    and the one who fails to reach[an] a hundred years[ao] will be considered[ap] accursed.
21 And they shall build houses and inhabit them,
    and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat.
For the days of my people shall be like the days of a tree,
    and my chosen ones shall enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor for nothing,
    and they shall not give birth to horror,
for they shall be offspring blessed by[aq] Yahweh,
    and their descendants with them.
24 And this will happen: before they call, I myself will answer;
    while still they are speaking, I myself will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed like one,
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
        but[ar] dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall do no evil,
    and they shall not destroy on all my holy mountain,”[as] says Yahweh.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:3 Literally “provoking”
  2. Isaiah 65:4 Literally “sitting”
  3. Isaiah 65:4 Literally “watches”
  4. Isaiah 65:4 Literally “eating”
  5. Isaiah 65:4 Or “and”
  6. Isaiah 65:4 The reading tradition (Qere) has “broth”
  7. Isaiah 65:5 Literally “saying”
  8. Isaiah 65:5 Literally “Come near to you”
  9. Isaiah 65:5 Literally “nose”
  10. Isaiah 65:6 Or “on”
  11. Isaiah 65:7 Or “fathers”
  12. Isaiah 65:8 Literally “to”
  13. Isaiah 65:8 Literally “all”
  14. Isaiah 65:9 Hebrew “descendant”
  15. Isaiah 65:9 Literally “man”
  16. Isaiah 65:10 Literally “of”
  17. Isaiah 65:10 Hebrew “flock”
  18. Isaiah 65:10 Or “of”
  19. Isaiah 65:10 Hebrew “herd”
  20. Isaiah 65:11 Or “and”
  21. Isaiah 65:11 Literally “forsaking”
  22. Isaiah 65:11 Literally “the mountain of my holiness”
  23. Isaiah 65:11 Literally “fill”
  24. Isaiah 65:12 Or “and”
  25. Isaiah 65:12 Or “and”
  26. Isaiah 65:12 Or “and”
  27. Isaiah 65:13 Or “and”
  28. Isaiah 65:13 Or “and”
  29. Isaiah 65:13 Or “and”
  30. Isaiah 65:14 Literally “from goodness of heart”
  31. Isaiah 65:14 Or “and”
  32. Isaiah 65:14 Literally “from pain of heart”
  33. Isaiah 65:14 Literally “from a breaking of the spirit”
  34. Isaiah 65:15 Literally “call”
  35. Isaiah 65:17 Literally “go up to heart”
  36. Isaiah 65:19 Or “and”
  37. Isaiah 65:20 Literally “of”
  38. Isaiah 65:20 Or “and”
  39. Isaiah 65:20 Literally “a son of a hundred year”
  40. Isaiah 65:20 Literally “misses”
  41. Isaiah 65:20 Literally “a son of a hundred year”
  42. Isaiah 65:20 Literally “treated”
  43. Isaiah 65:23 Literally “the offspring of the blessing of”
  44. Isaiah 65:25 Or “and”
  45. Isaiah 65:25 Literally “the mountain of my holiness”
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