Isaiah 65:1-7

Evangelical Heritage Version

I was available to 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 reached out my hands all day to a stubborn people,
who are walking in a way that is not good,
who follow their own ideas.
³ This people continually provokes me to anger, right to my face,
    by sacrificing in the groves,
    by burning incense on the bricks.
⁴ They sit in tombs
and keep their vigils all night.
They eat the flesh of pigs,
and broth made from unclean meat is in their pots.
⁵ They say, “Keep to yourself.
Do not touch me because I am too holy for you.”
These people are smoke in my nostrils,
like a fire burning all day.

⁶ Look, I have put it in writing.
I will not be silent until I repay them.
I will repay into their lap
⁷     both their^[a] guilt and the guilt of their fathers,
    says the Lord.
Because they burned incense upon the mountains,
and upon the hills they ridiculed me,
so I will measure out their full pay into their lap.