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Isaiah 62-66
King James Version
Isaiah 62-66
King James Version
62 For Zion's sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.
2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord shall name.
3 Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.
4 Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marrieth a virgin, so shall thy sons marry thee: and as the bridegroom rejoiceth over the bride, so shall thy God rejoice over thee.
6 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the Lord, keep not silence,
7 And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
9 But they that have gathered it shall eat it, and praise the Lord; and they that have brought it together shall drink it in the courts of my holiness.
10 Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.
11 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
12 And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of the Lord: and thou shalt be called, Sought out, A city not forsaken.
63 Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah? this that is glorious in his apparel, travelling in the greatness of his strength? I that speak in righteousness, mighty to save.
2 Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?
3 I have trodden the winepress alone; and of the people there was none with me: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment.
4 For the day of vengeance is in mine heart, and the year of my redeemed is come.
5 And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.
6 And I will tread down the people in mine anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring down their strength to the earth.
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord, and the praises of the Lord, according to all that the Lord hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.
8 For he said, Surely they are my people, children that will not lie: so he was their Saviour.
9 In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.
10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
11 Then he remembered the days of old, Moses, and his people, saying, Where is he that brought them up out of the sea with the shepherd of his flock? where is he that put his holy Spirit within him?
12 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name?
13 That led them through the deep, as an horse in the wilderness, that they should not stumble?
14 As a beast goeth down into the valley, the Spirit of the Lord caused him to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven, and behold from the habitation of thy holiness and of thy glory: where is thy zeal and thy strength, the sounding of thy bowels and of thy mercies toward me? are they restrained?
16 Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
17 O Lord, why hast thou made us to err from thy ways, and hardened our heart from thy fear? Return for thy servants' sake, the tribes of thine inheritance.
18 The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.
19 We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.
64 Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence,
2 As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!
3 When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.
5 Thou meetest him that rejoiceth and worketh righteousness, those that remember thee in thy ways: behold, thou art wroth; for we have sinned: in those is continuance, and we shall be saved.
6 But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.
7 And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.
9 Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
10 Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
12 Wilt thou refrain thyself for these things, O Lord? wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?
65 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
4 Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
6 Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
12 Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
14 Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
16 That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
17 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
66 Thus saith the Lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest?
2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.
4 I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.
5 Hear the word of the Lord, ye that tremble at his word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the Lord be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.
6 A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.
7 Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
8 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
9 Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the Lord: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
10 Rejoice ye with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all ye that love her: rejoice for joy with her, all ye that mourn for her:
11 That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.
12 For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 And when ye see this, your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like an herb: and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward his servants, and his indignation toward his enemies.
15 For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.
18 For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
19 And I will set a sign among them, and I will send those that escape of them unto the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, that draw the bow, to Tubal, and Javan, to the isles afar off, that have not heard my fame, neither have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the Gentiles.
20 And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering unto the Lord out of all nations upon horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and upon mules, and upon swift beasts, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, saith the Lord, as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.
21 And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain.
23 And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord.
24 And they shall go forth, and look upon the carcases of the men that have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring unto all flesh.
Isaiah 62-66
New International Version
Isaiah 62-66
New International Version
Zion’s New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,(A)
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication(B) shines out like the dawn,(C)
her salvation(D) like a blazing torch.
2 The nations(E) will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name(F)
that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
3 You will be a crown(G) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will they call you Deserted,(H)
or name your land Desolate.(I)
But you will be called Hephzibah,[a](J)
and your land Beulah[b];
for the Lord will take delight(K) in you,
and your land will be married.(L)
5 As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom(M) rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice(N) over you.
6 I have posted watchmen(O) on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,(P)
7 and give him no rest(Q) till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise(R) of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn(S) by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain(T)
as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat(U) it
and praise the Lord,(V)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”(W)
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(X)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(Y)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(Z) for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:(AA)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(AB)
‘See, your Savior comes!(AC)
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”(AD)
12 They will be called(AE) the Holy People,(AF)
the Redeemed(AG) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.(AH)
God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
63 Who is this coming from Edom,(AI)
from Bozrah,(AJ) with his garments stained crimson?(AK)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(AL)
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”(AM)
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?(AN)
3 “I have trodden the winepress(AO) alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(AP) them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;(AQ)
their blood spattered my garments,(AR)
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;(AS)
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one(AT) to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(AU) achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.(AV)
6 I trampled(AW) the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk(AX)
and poured their blood(AY) on the ground.”
Praise and Prayer
7 I will tell of the kindnesses(AZ) of the Lord,
the deeds for which he is to be praised,
according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things(BA)
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion(BB) and many kindnesses.
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,(BC)
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.(BD)
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel(BE) of his presence(BF) saved them.[c]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(BG) them;
he lifted them up and carried(BH) them
all the days of old.(BI)
10 Yet they rebelled(BJ)
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(BK)
So he turned and became their enemy(BL)
and he himself fought(BM) against them.
11 Then his people recalled[d] the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,(BN)
with the shepherd of his flock?(BO)
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit(BP) among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm(BQ) of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(BR) before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,(BS)
13 who led(BT) them through the depths?(BU)
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;(BV)
14 like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest(BW) by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
to make for yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven(BX) and see,
from your lofty throne,(BY) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal(BZ) and your might?
Your tenderness and compassion(CA) are withheld(CB) from us.
16 But you are our Father,(CC)
though Abraham does not know us
or Israel acknowledge(CD) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
our Redeemer(CE) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(CF) from your ways
and harden our hearts(CG) so we do not revere(CH) you?
Return(CI) for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your inheritance.(CJ)
18 For a little while(CK) your people possessed your holy place,
but now our enemies have trampled(CL) down your sanctuary.(CM)
19 We are yours from of old;
but you have not ruled over them,
they have not been called[e] by your name.(CN)
64 [f]Oh, that you would rend the heavens(CO) and come down,(CP)
that the mountains(CQ) would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name(CR) known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake(CS) before you!
3 For when you did awesome(CT) things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled(CU) before you.
4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,(CV)
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.(CW)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(CX)
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.(CY)
How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,(CZ)
and all our righteous(DA) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(DB)
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(DC)
7 No one(DD) calls on your name(DE)
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(DF) your face from us
and have given us over(DG) to[g] our sins.
8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(DH)
We are the clay, you are the potter;(DI)
we are all the work of your hand.(DJ)
9 Do not be angry(DK) beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins(DL) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.(DM)
10 Your sacred cities(DN) have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.(DO)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,(DP) where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured(DQ) lies in ruins.
12 After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?(DR)
Will you keep silent(DS) and punish us beyond measure?
Judgment and Salvation
65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.(DT)
To a nation(DU) that did not call on my name,(DV)
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,(DW)
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations(DX)—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,(DY)
offering sacrifices in gardens(DZ)
and burning incense(EA) on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves(EB)
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(EC)
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred(ED) for you!’
Such people are smoke(EE) in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent(EF) but will pay back(EG) in full;
I will pay it back into their laps(EH)—
7 both your sins(EI) and the sins of your ancestors,”(EJ)
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,(EK)
I will measure into their laps
the full payment(EL) for their former deeds.”
8 This is what the Lord says:
“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(EM)
and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(EN)
I will not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants(EO) from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess(EP) my mountains;
my chosen(EQ) people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.(ER)
10 Sharon(ES) will become a pasture for flocks,(ET)
and the Valley of Achor(EU) a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek(EV) me.
11 “But as for you who forsake(EW) the Lord
and forget my holy mountain,(EX)
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine(EY) for Destiny,
12 I will destine you for the sword,(EZ)
and all of you will fall in the slaughter;(FA)
for I called but you did not answer,(FB)
I spoke but you did not listen.(FC)
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(FD)
13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“My servants will eat,(FE)
but you will go hungry;(FF)
my servants will drink,(FG)
but you will go thirsty;(FH)
my servants will rejoice,(FI)
but you will be put to shame.(FJ)
14 My servants will sing(FK)
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(FL)
from anguish of heart
and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(FM)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.(FN)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(FO) in the land
will do so by the one true God;(FP)
whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear(FQ) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(FR) will be forgotten
and hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.(FS)
The former things will not be remembered,(FT)
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(FU) forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(FV) to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(FW) over Jerusalem
and take delight(FX) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(FY)
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant(FZ) who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;(GA)
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[h] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(GB) and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(GC)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(GD)
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(GE)
so will be the days(GF) of my people;
my chosen(GG) ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,(GH)
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(GI)
for they will be a people blessed(GJ) by the Lord,
they and their descendants(GK) with them.
24 Before they call(GL) I will answer;(GM)
while they are still speaking(GN) I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb(GO) will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(GP)
and dust will be the serpent’s(GQ) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”(GR)
says the Lord.
Judgment and Hope
66 This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,(GS)
and the earth is my footstool.(GT)
Where is the house(GU) you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
2 Has not my hand made all these things,(GV)
and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.
“These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are humble and contrite in spirit,(GW)
and who tremble at my word.(GX)
3 But whoever sacrifices a bull(GY)
is like one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
is like one who presents pig’s(GZ) blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense(HA)
is like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,(HB)
and they delight in their abominations;(HC)
4 so I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and will bring on them what they dread.(HD)
For when I called, no one answered,(HE)
when I spoke, no one listened.
They did evil(HF) in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(HG)
5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at his word:(HH)
“Your own people who hate(HI) you,
and exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified,
that we may see your joy!’
Yet they will be put to shame.(HJ)
6 Hear that uproar from the city,
hear that noise from the temple!
It is the sound(HK) of the Lord
repaying(HL) his enemies all they deserve.
7 “Before she goes into labor,(HM)
she gives birth;
before the pains come upon her,
she delivers a son.(HN)
8 Who has ever heard of such things?
Who has ever seen(HO) things like this?
Can a country be born in a day(HP)
or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
than she gives birth to her children.(HQ)
9 Do I bring to the moment of birth(HR)
and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice(HS) with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love(HT) her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you who mourn(HU) over her.
11 For you will nurse(HV) and be satisfied
at her comforting breasts;(HW)
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance.”(HX)
12 For this is what the Lord says:
“I will extend peace(HY) to her like a river,(HZ)
and the wealth(IA) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried(IB) on her arm
and dandled on her knees.
13 As a mother comforts her child,(IC)
so will I comfort(ID) you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”
14 When you see this, your heart will rejoice(IE)
and you will flourish(IF) like grass;
the hand(IG) of the Lord will be made known to his servants,(IH)
but his fury(II) will be shown to his foes.
15 See, the Lord is coming with fire,(IJ)
and his chariots(IK) are like a whirlwind;(IL)
he will bring down his anger with fury,
and his rebuke(IM) with flames of fire.
16 For with fire(IN) and with his sword(IO)
the Lord will execute judgment(IP) on all people,
and many will be those slain(IQ) by the Lord.
17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,(IR) following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs,(IS) rats(IT) and other unclean things—they will meet their end(IU) together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
18 “And I, because of what they have planned and done,(IV) am about to come[i] and gather the people of all nations(IW) and languages, and they will come and see my glory.(IX)
19 “I will set a sign(IY) among them, and I will send some of those who survive(IZ) to the nations—to Tarshish,(JA) to the Libyans[j] and Lydians(JB) (famous as archers), to Tubal(JC) and Greece,(JD) and to the distant islands(JE) that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.(JF) They will proclaim my glory among the nations. 20 And they will bring(JG) all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain(JH) in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”(JI) says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.(JJ) 21 And I will select some of them also to be priests(JK) and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “As the new heavens and the new earth(JL) that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.(JM) 23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath(JN) to another, all mankind will come and bow down(JO) before me,” says the Lord. 24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies(JP) of those who rebelled(JQ) against me; the worms(JR) that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched,(JS) and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
- Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.
- Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior 9 in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them
- Isaiah 63:11 Or But may he recall
- Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called
- Isaiah 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.
- Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of
- Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches
- Isaiah 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
- Isaiah 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul
Isaiah 62-66
New King James Version
Isaiah 62-66
New King James Version
Assurance of Zion’s Salvation
62 For Zion’s sake I will not [a]hold My peace,
And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
Until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
And her salvation as a lamp that burns.
2 (A)The Gentiles shall see your righteousness,
And all (B)kings your glory.
(C)You shall be called by a new name,
Which the mouth of the Lord will name.
3 You shall also be (D)a crown of glory
In the hand of the Lord,
And a royal diadem
In the hand of your God.
4 (E)You shall no longer be termed (F)Forsaken,[b]
Nor shall your land any more be termed (G)Desolate;[c]
But you shall be called [d]Hephzibah, and your land [e]Beulah;
For the Lord delights in you,
And your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a virgin,
So shall your sons marry you;
And as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
(H)So shall your God rejoice over you.
6 (I)I have set watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem;
They shall [f]never hold their peace day or night.
You who [g]make mention of the Lord, do not keep silent,
7 And give Him no rest till He establishes
And till He makes Jerusalem (J)a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn by His right hand
And by the arm of His strength:
“Surely I will no longer (K)give your grain
As food for your enemies;
And the sons of the foreigner shall not drink your new wine,
For which you have labored.
9 But those who have gathered it shall eat it,
And praise the Lord;
Those who have brought it together shall drink it (L)in My holy courts.”
10 Go through,
Go through the gates!
(M)Prepare the way for the people;
Build up,
Build up the highway!
Take out the stones,
(N)Lift up a banner for the peoples!
11 Indeed the Lord has proclaimed
To the end of the world:
(O)“Say to the daughter of Zion,
‘Surely your salvation is coming;
Behold, His (P)reward is with Him,
And His [h]work before Him.’ ”
12 And they shall call them The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
And you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
The Lord in Judgment and Salvation
63 Who is this who comes from Edom,
With dyed garments from Bozrah,
This One who is [i]glorious in His apparel,
Traveling in the greatness of His strength?—
“I who speak in righteousness, mighty to save.”
2 Why (Q)is Your apparel red,
And Your garments like one who treads in the winepress?
3 “I have (R)trodden the winepress alone,
And from the peoples no one was with Me.
For I have trodden them in My anger,
And trampled them in My fury;
Their blood is sprinkled upon My garments,
And I have stained all My robes.
4 For the (S)day of vengeance is in My heart,
And the year of My redeemed has come.
5 (T)I looked, but (U)there was no one to help,
And I wondered
That there was no one to uphold;
Therefore My own (V)arm brought salvation for Me;
And My own fury, it sustained Me.
6 I have trodden down the peoples in My anger,
Made them drunk in My fury,
And brought down their strength to the earth.”
God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the Lord
And the praises of the Lord,
According to all that the Lord has bestowed on us,
And the great goodness toward the house of Israel,
Which He has bestowed on them according to His mercies,
According to the multitude of His lovingkindnesses.
8 For He said, “Surely they are My people,
Children who will not lie.”
So He became their Savior.
9 (W)In all their affliction He was [j]afflicted,
(X)And the Angel of His Presence saved them;
(Y)In His love and in His pity He redeemed them;
And (Z)He bore them and carried them
All the days of old.
10 But they (AA)rebelled and (AB)grieved His Holy Spirit;
(AC)So He turned Himself against them as an enemy,
And He fought against them.
11 Then he (AD)remembered the days of old,
Moses and his people, saying:
“Where is He who (AE)brought them up out of the sea
With the [k]shepherd of His flock?
(AF)Where is He who put His Holy Spirit within them,
12 Who led them by the right hand of Moses,
(AG)With His glorious arm,
(AH)Dividing the water before them
To make for Himself an everlasting name,
13 (AI)Who led them through the deep,
As a horse in the wilderness,
That they might not stumble?”
14 As a beast goes down into the valley,
And the Spirit of the Lord causes him to rest,
So You lead Your people,
(AJ)To make Yourself a glorious name.
A Prayer of Penitence
15 (AK)Look down from heaven,
And see (AL)from Your habitation, holy and glorious.
Where are Your zeal and Your strength,
The yearning (AM)of Your heart and Your mercies toward me?
Are they restrained?
16 (AN)Doubtless You are our Father,
Though Abraham (AO)was ignorant of us,
And Israel does not acknowledge us.
You, O Lord, are our Father;
Our Redeemer from Everlasting is Your name.
17 O Lord, why have You (AP)made us stray from Your ways,
And hardened our heart from Your fear?
Return for Your servants’ sake,
The tribes of Your inheritance.
18 (AQ)Your holy people have possessed it but a little while;
(AR)Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.
19 We have become like those of old, over whom You never ruled,
Those who were never called by Your name.
A Prayer for Help
64 Oh, that You would [l]rend the heavens!
That You would come down!
That the mountains might shake at Your (AS)presence—
2 As fire burns brushwood,
As fire causes water to boil—
To make Your name known to Your adversaries,
That the nations may tremble at Your presence!
3 When (AT)You did awesome things for which we did not look,
You came down,
The mountains shook at Your presence.
4 For since the beginning of the world
(AU)Men have not heard nor perceived by the ear,
Nor has the eye seen any God besides You,
Who acts for the one who waits for Him.
5 You meet him who rejoices and does righteousness,
Who remembers You in Your ways.
You are indeed angry, for we have sinned—
(AV)In these ways we continue;
And we need to be saved.
6 But we are all like an unclean thing,
And all (AW)our righteousnesses are like [m]filthy rags;
We all (AX)fade as a leaf,
And our iniquities, like the wind,
Have taken us away.
7 And there is no one who calls on Your name,
Who stirs himself up to take hold of You;
For You have hidden Your face from us,
And have [n]consumed us because of our iniquities.
8 But now, O Lord,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our (AY)potter;
And all we are the work of Your hand.
9 Do not be furious, O Lord,
Nor remember iniquity forever;
Indeed, please look—we all are Your people!
10 Your holy cities are a wilderness,
Zion is a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 Our holy and beautiful [o]temple,
Where our fathers praised You,
Is burned up with fire;
And all (AZ)our pleasant things [p]are laid waste.
12 (BA)Will You restrain Yourself because of these things, O Lord?
(BB)Will You [q]hold Your peace, and afflict us very severely?
The Righteousness of God’s Judgment
65 “I was (BC)sought by those who did not ask for Me;
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’
To a nation that (BD)was not called by My name.
2 (BE)I have stretched out My hands all day long to a (BF)rebellious people,
Who (BG)walk in a way that is not good,
According to their own thoughts;
3 A people (BH)who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;
(BI)Who sacrifice in gardens,
And burn incense on altars of brick;
4 (BJ)Who sit among the graves,
And spend the night in the tombs;
(BK)Who eat swine’s flesh,
And the broth of [r]abominable things is in their vessels;
5 (BL)Who say, ‘Keep to yourself,
Do not come near me,
For I am holier than you!’
These [s]are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.
6 “Behold, (BM)it is written before Me:
(BN)I will not keep silence, (BO)but will repay—
Even repay into their bosom—
7 Your iniquities and (BP)the iniquities of your fathers together,”
Says the Lord,
(BQ)“Who have burned incense on the mountains
(BR)And blasphemed Me on the hills;
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”
8 Thus says the Lord:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
And one says, ‘Do not destroy it,
For (BS)a blessing is in it,’
So will I do for My servants’ sake,
That I may not destroy them (BT)all.
9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,
And from Judah an heir of My mountains;
My (BU)elect shall inherit it,
And My servants shall dwell there.
10 (BV)Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,
And (BW)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
For My people who have (BX)sought Me.
11 “But you are those who forsake the Lord,
Who forget (BY)My holy mountain,
Who prepare (BZ)a table for [t]Gad,
And who furnish a drink offering for [u]Meni.
12 Therefore I will number you for the sword,
And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;
(CA)Because, when I called, you did not answer;
When I spoke, you did not hear,
But did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
“Behold, 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 ashamed;
14 Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart,
But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,
And (CB)wail for [v]grief of spirit.
15 You shall leave your name (CC)as a curse to (CD)My chosen;
For the Lord God will slay you,
And (CE)call His servants by another name;
16 (CF)So that he who blesses himself in the earth
Shall bless himself in the God of truth;
And (CG)he who swears in the earth
Shall swear by the God of truth;
Because the former troubles are forgotten,
And because they are hidden from My eyes.
The Glorious New Creation
17 “For behold, I create (CH)new heavens and a new earth;
And the former shall not be remembered or [w]come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
For behold, I create Jerusalem as a rejoicing,
And her people a joy.
19 (CI)I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
And joy in My people;
The (CJ)voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,
Nor the voice of crying.
20 “No more shall an infant from there live but a few days,
Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;
For the child shall die one hundred years old,
(CK)But the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (CL)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
They shall not plant and (CM)another eat;
For (CN)as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people,
And (CO)My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They shall not labor in vain,
(CP)Nor bring forth children for trouble;
For (CQ)they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord,
And their offspring with them.
24 “It shall come to pass
That (CR)before they call, I will answer;
And while they are still speaking, I will (CS)hear.
25 The (CT)wolf and the lamb shall feed together,
The lion shall eat straw like the ox,
(CU)And dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,”
Says the Lord.
True Worship and False
66 Thus says the Lord:
(CV)“Heaven is My throne,
And earth is My footstool.
Where is the house that you will build Me?
And where is the place of My rest?
2 For all those things My hand has made,
And all those things exist,”
Says the Lord.
(CW)“But on this one will I look:
(CX)On him who is poor and of a contrite spirit,
And who trembles at My word.
3 “He(CY) who kills a bull is as if he slays a man;
He who sacrifices a lamb, as if he (CZ)breaks a dog’s neck;
He who offers a grain offering, as if he offers swine’s blood;
He who burns incense, as if he blesses an idol.
Just as they have chosen their own ways,
And their soul delights in their abominations,
4 So will I choose their delusions,
And bring their fears on them;
(DA)Because, when I called, no one answered,
When I spoke they did not hear;
But they did evil before My eyes,
And chose that in which I do not delight.”
The Lord Vindicates Zion
5 Hear the word of the Lord,
You who tremble at His word:
“Your brethren who (DB)hated you,
Who cast you out for My name’s sake, said,
(DC)‘Let the Lord be glorified,
That (DD)we may see your joy.’
But they shall be ashamed.”
6 The sound of noise from the city!
A voice from the temple!
The voice of the Lord,
Who fully repays His enemies!
7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
Before her pain came,
She delivered a male child.
8 Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Or shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion was in labor,
She gave birth to her children.
9 Shall I bring to the time of birth, and not cause delivery?” says the Lord.
“Shall I who cause delivery shut up the womb?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice with Jerusalem,
And be glad with her, all you who love her;
Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her;
11 That you may feed and be satisfied
With the consolation of her bosom,
That you may drink deeply and be delighted
With the abundance of her glory.”
12 For thus says the Lord:
“Behold, (DE)I will extend peace to her like a river,
And the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream.
Then you shall (DF)feed;
On her sides shall you be (DG)carried,
And be dandled on her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
So I will (DH)comfort you;
And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”
The Reign and Indignation of God
14 When you see this, your heart shall rejoice,
And (DI)your bones shall flourish like grass;
The hand of the Lord shall be known to His servants,
And His indignation to His enemies.
15 (DJ)For behold, the Lord will come with fire
And with His chariots, like a whirlwind,
To render His anger with fury,
And His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For by fire and by (DK)His sword
The Lord will judge all flesh;
And the slain of the Lord shall be (DL)many.
17 “Those(DM) who sanctify themselves and purify themselves,
To go to the gardens
[x]After an idol in the midst,
Eating swine’s flesh and the abomination and the mouse,
Shall [y]be consumed together,” says the Lord.
18 “For I know their works and their (DN)thoughts. It shall be that I will (DO)gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and see My glory. 19 (DP)I will set a sign among them; and those among them who escape I will send to the nations: to Tarshish and [z]Pul and Lud, who draw the bow, and Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame nor seen My glory. (DQ)And they shall declare My glory among the Gentiles. 20 Then they shall (DR)bring all your brethren (DS)for an offering to the Lord out of all nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the Lord, “as the children of Israel bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21 And I will also take some of them for (DT)priests and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “For as (DU)the new heavens and the new earth
Which I will make shall remain before Me,” says the Lord,
“So shall your descendants and your name remain.
23 And (DV)it shall come to pass
That from one New Moon to another,
And from one Sabbath to another,
(DW)All flesh shall come to worship before Me,” says the Lord.
24 “And they shall go forth and look
Upon the corpses of the men
Who have transgressed against Me.
For their (DX)worm does not die,
And their fire is not quenched.
They shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:1 keep silent
- Isaiah 62:4 Heb. Azubah
- Isaiah 62:4 Heb. Shemamah
- Isaiah 62:4 Lit. My Delight Is in Her
- Isaiah 62:4 Lit. Married
- Isaiah 62:6 not be silent
- Isaiah 62:6 remember
- Isaiah 62:11 recompense
- Isaiah 63:1 Or adorned
- Isaiah 63:9 Kt., LXX, Syr. not afflicted
- Isaiah 63:11 MT, Vg. shepherds
- Isaiah 64:1 tear open
- Isaiah 64:6 Lit. a filthy garment
- Isaiah 64:7 Lit. caused us to melt
- Isaiah 64:11 Lit. house
- Isaiah 64:11 have become a ruin
- Isaiah 64:12 keep silent
- Isaiah 65:4 Unclean meats, Lev. 7:18; 19:7
- Isaiah 65:5 Cause My wrath to smoke
- Isaiah 65:11 Lit. Troop or Fortune; a pagan deity
- Isaiah 65:11 Lit. Number or Destiny; a pagan deity
- Isaiah 65:14 Or a broken spirit
- Isaiah 65:17 Lit. come upon the heart
- Isaiah 66:17 Lit. After one
- Isaiah 66:17 come to an end
- Isaiah 66:19 So with MT, Tg.; LXX Put (cf. Jer. 46:9)
Isaiah 62-66
English Standard Version
Isaiah 62-66
English Standard Version
Zion's Coming Salvation
62 (A)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
(B)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
2 (C)The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
(D)and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be (E)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 (F)You shall no more be termed (G)Forsaken,[a]
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[b]
(H)but you shall be called (I)My Delight Is in Her,[c]
and your land Married;[d]
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so (J)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so (K)shall your God rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set (L)watchmen;
all the day and all the night
they shall never be silent.
You who put the Lord in remembrance,
take no rest,
7 and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it (M)a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn (N)by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give (O)your grain
to be food for your enemies,
(P)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored;
9 but (Q)those who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and (R)those who gather it shall drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”[e]
10 Go through, go through the gates;
(S)prepare the way for the people;
(T)build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
(U)lift up a signal over the peoples.
11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
(V)Say to the daughter of Zion,
(W)“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.”
12 (X)And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
(Y)and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
The Lord's Day of Vengeance
63 Who is this who comes from (Z)Edom,
in crimsoned garments from (AA)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
(AB)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
3 (AE)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
(AF)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[f] spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
4 (AG)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption[g] had come.
5 I looked, but (AH)there was no one to help;
I was appalled, but there was no one to uphold;
so my own arm brought me salvation,
and my wrath upheld me.
6 I trampled down the peoples in my anger;
(AI)I made them drunk in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”
The Lord's Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the steadfast love of the Lord,
the praises of the Lord,
according to all that the Lord has granted us,
(AJ)and the great goodness to the house of Israel
that he has granted them according to his compassion,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.
8 For he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not deal falsely.”
And he became their Savior.
9 (AK)In all their affliction he was afflicted,[h]
and the angel of his presence saved them;
(AL)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
(AM)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
10 (AN)But they rebelled
(AO)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
and himself fought against them.
11 Then he remembered (AP)the days of old,
of Moses and his people.[i]
(AQ)Where is he who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is he who put in the midst of them
his Holy Spirit,
12 who caused his glorious arm
to go at the right hand of Moses,
(AR)who divided the waters before them
(AS)to make for himself an everlasting name,
13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.
14 Like livestock that go down into the valley,
(AT)the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
(AU)to make for yourself a glorious name.
Prayer for Mercy
15 (AV)Look down from heaven and see,
(AW)from your holy and beautiful[j] habitation.
Where are (AX)your zeal and your might?
The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
are held back from me.
16 For (AY)you are our Father,
though Abraham does not know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
(AZ)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
17 O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
and (BA)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
(BB)Return for the sake of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
18 (BC)Your holy people held possession for a little while;[k]
(BD)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
19 (BE)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
like those who are not called by your name.
64 (BF)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
(BG)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 [l] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
(BH)to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 (BI)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 (BJ)From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
(BK)no eye has seen a God besides you,
who acts for those who wait for him.
5 You 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?[m]
6 (BL)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(BM)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 (BN)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[n] the hand of our iniquities.
8 (BO)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(BP)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(BQ)we are all the work of your hand.
9 (BR)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
(BS)and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 (BT)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (BU)Our holy and beautiful[o] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 (BV)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
Judgment and Salvation
65 (BW)I was ready to be sought by (BX)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[p] my name.
2 (BY)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,
(BZ)sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;
4 who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
(CA)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.”
(CB)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, (CC)it is written before me:
(CD)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(CE)I will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities (CF)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(CG)because they made offerings on the mountains
(CH)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[q]
8 Thus says the Lord:
(CI)“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,
(CJ)and not destroy them all.
9 (CK)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 (CL)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and (CM)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people (CN)who have sought me.
11 But (CO)you who forsake the Lord,
who forget (CP)my holy mountain,
who (CQ)set a table for Fortune
and (CR)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,
(CS)because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not listen,
(CT)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, (CU)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, (CV)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 (CW)my chosen (CX)for a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants (CY)he will call by another name,
16 so that he who (CZ)blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by (DA)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by (DB)the God of truth;
(DC)because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, (DD)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, (DE)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 (DF)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
(DG)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 (DH)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and (DI)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (DJ)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (DK)They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
(DL)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[r] the work of their hands.
23 (DM)They shall not labor in vain
(DN)or bear children for calamity,[s]
for (DO)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
24 (DP)Before they call I will answer;
(DQ)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 (DR)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and (DS)dust shall be the serpent's food.
(DT)They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
The Humble and Contrite in Spirit
66 (DU)Thus says the Lord:
(DV)“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 (DW)All these things my hand has made,
and so all these things came to be,
declares the Lord.
(DX)But this is the one to whom I will look:
he who is humble and contrite in spirit
and trembles at my word.
3 (DY)“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 (DZ)pig's blood;
he who makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.
(EA)These have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
4 (EB)I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and bring (EC)their fears upon them,
(ED)because when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen;
(EE)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, (EF)‘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,
(EG)rendering recompense to his enemies!
Rejoice with Jerusalem
7 (EH)“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 (EI)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 (EJ)“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.”[t]
12 For thus says the Lord:
(EK)“Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river,
and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream;
and (EL)you shall nurse, you shall be carried upon her hip,
and bounced upon her knees.
13 As one whom his mother comforts,
so (EM)I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
(EN)your bones shall flourish like the grass;
and (EO)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, (EP)the Lord will come in fire,
and (EQ)his chariots like the whirlwind,
to render his anger in fury,
and his rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For (ER)by fire (ES)will the Lord enter into judgment,
and by his sword, with all flesh;
and those slain by the Lord shall be many.
17 (ET)“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one in the midst, (EU)eating pig's flesh and the abomination and mice, shall come to an end together, declares the Lord.
18 “For I know[u] their works and their thoughts, and the time is coming[v] (EV)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 (EW)I will send survivors to the nations, to (EX)Tarshish, (EY)Pul, and (EZ)Lud, who draw the bow, to (FA)Tubal and (FB)Javan, (FC)to the coastlands far away, (FD)that have not heard my fame or seen my glory. And they shall declare my glory among the nations. 20 (FE)And they shall bring all your brothers from all the nations (FF)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 (FG)And some of them also I will take for priests and for Levites, says the Lord.
22 “For as (FH)the new heavens and the new earth
that I make
shall remain before me, says the Lord,
so (FI)shall your offspring and your name remain.
23 (FJ)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 (FK)their worm shall not die, (FL)their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Azubah
- Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Shemamah
- Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Hephzibah
- Isaiah 62:4 Hebrew Beulah
- Isaiah 62:9 Or in my holy courts
- Isaiah 63:3 Or their juice; also verse 6
- Isaiah 63:4 Or the year of my redeemed
- Isaiah 63:9 Or he did not afflict
- Isaiah 63:11 Or Then his people remembered the days of old, of Moses
- 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
- 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
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