Isaiah 63:15-65:7

English Standard Version

Prayer for Mercy

¹⁵^(A)Look down from heaven and see,
    ^(B)from your holy and beautiful^[a] habitation.
Where are ^(C)your zeal and your might?
    The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
    are held back from me.
¹⁶For ^(D)you are our Father,
    though Abraham does not know us,
    and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
    ^(E)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
¹⁷O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
    and ^(F)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
^(G)Return for the sake of your servants,
    the tribes of your heritage.
¹⁸^(H)Your holy people held possession for a little while;^[b]
    ^(I)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
¹⁹^(J)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
    like those who are not called by your name.

64 ^(K)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
    ^(L)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
²^[c] as when fire kindles brushwood
    and the fire causes water to boil—
^(M)to make your name known to your adversaries,
    and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
³^(N)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
    you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
⁴^(O)From of old no one has heard
    or perceived by the ear,
^(P)no eye has seen a God besides you,
    who acts for those who wait for him.
⁵You meet him who joyfully works righteousness,
    those who remember you in your ways.
Behold, you were angry, and we sinned;
    in our sins we have been a long time, and shall we be saved?^[d]
⁶^(Q)We have all become like one who is unclean,
    and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
^(R)We all fade like a leaf,
    and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
⁷^(S)There is no one who calls upon your name,
    who rouses himself to take hold of you;
for you have hidden your face from us,
    and have made us melt in^[e] the hand of our iniquities.

⁸^(T)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
    ^(U)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
    ^(V)we are all the work of your hand.
⁹^(W)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
    ^(X)and remember not iniquity forever.
    Behold, please look, we are all your people.
¹⁰^(Y)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
    Zion has become a wilderness,
    Jerusalem a desolation.
¹¹^(Z)Our holy and beautiful^[f] house,
    where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
    and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
¹²^(AA)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
    Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?

Judgment and Salvation

65 ^(AB)I was ready to be sought by ^(AC)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^[g] my name.
²^(AD)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;
³a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
^(AE)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;
⁴who sit in tombs,
    and spend the night in secret places;
^(AF)who eat pig's flesh,
    and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
⁵who say, “Keep to yourself,
    do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
^(AG)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that burns all the day.
⁶Behold, ^(AH)it is written before me:
    ^(AI)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
^(AJ)I will indeed repay into their lap
⁷    both your iniquities ^(AK)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
^(AL)because they made offerings on the mountains
    ^(AM)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds.”^[h]

Footnotes

Isaiah 63:15 Or holy and glorious
Isaiah 63:18 Or They have dispossessed your holy people for a little while
Isaiah 64:2 Ch 64:1 in Hebrew
Isaiah 64:5 Or in your ways is continuance, that we might be saved
Isaiah 64:7 Masoretic Text; Septuagint, Syriac, Targum have delivered us into
Isaiah 64:11 Or holy and glorious
Isaiah 65:1 Or that did not call upon
Isaiah 65:7 Or I will first measure their payment into their lap

Luke 2:41-52

English Standard Version

The Boy Jesus in the Temple

⁴¹Now ^(A)his parents went ^(B)to Jerusalem every year at ^(C)the Feast of the Passover. ⁴²And when he was twelve years old, ^(D)they went up according to custom. ⁴³And when the feast ^(E)was ended, as they were returning, the boy Jesus stayed behind in Jerusalem. ^(F)His parents did not know it, ⁴⁴but supposing him to be in the group they went a day's journey, but then they began to search for him among their relatives and acquaintances, ⁴⁵and when they did not find him, they returned to Jerusalem, searching for him. ⁴⁶After three days they found him in the temple, ^(G)sitting among ^(H)the teachers, listening to them and asking them questions. ⁴⁷And all who heard him were amazed at his understanding and his answers. ⁴⁸And when his parents^[a] saw him, they were astonished. And his mother said to him, “Son, why have you treated us so? Behold, ^(I)your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.” ⁴⁹And he said to them, “Why were you looking for me? Did you not know that ^(J)I must be in ^(K)my Father's house?”^[b] ⁵⁰And ^(L)they did not understand the saying that he spoke to them. ⁵¹And he went down with them and came to Nazareth and was submissive to them. And ^(M)his mother treasured up all these things in her heart.