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Isaiah 62:6-65:25
New International Version
Isaiah 62:6-65:25
New International Version
6 I have posted watchmen(A) on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,(B)
7 and give him no rest(C) till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise(D) of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn(E) by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain(F)
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(G) it
and praise the Lord,(H)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”(I)
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(J)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(K)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(L) for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:(M)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(N)
‘See, your Savior comes!(O)
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”(P)
12 They will be called(Q) the Holy People,(R)
the Redeemed(S) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.(T)
God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
63 Who is this coming from Edom,(U)
from Bozrah,(V) with his garments stained crimson?(W)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(X)
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”(Y)
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?(Z)
3 “I have trodden the winepress(AA) alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(AB) them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;(AC)
their blood spattered my garments,(AD)
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;(AE)
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one(AF) to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(AG) achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.(AH)
6 I trampled(AI) the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk(AJ)
and poured their blood(AK) on the ground.”
Praise and Prayer
7 I will tell of the kindnesses(AL) 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(AM)
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion(AN) and many kindnesses.
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,(AO)
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.(AP)
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel(AQ) of his presence(AR) saved them.[a]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(AS) them;
he lifted them up and carried(AT) them
all the days of old.(AU)
10 Yet they rebelled(AV)
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(AW)
So he turned and became their enemy(AX)
and he himself fought(AY) against them.
11 Then his people recalled[b] the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,(AZ)
with the shepherd of his flock?(BA)
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit(BB) among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm(BC) of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(BD) before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,(BE)
13 who led(BF) them through the depths?(BG)
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;(BH)
14 like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest(BI) 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(BJ) and see,
from your lofty throne,(BK) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal(BL) and your might?
Your tenderness and compassion(BM) are withheld(BN) from us.
16 But you are our Father,(BO)
though Abraham does not know us
or Israel acknowledge(BP) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
our Redeemer(BQ) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(BR) from your ways
and harden our hearts(BS) so we do not revere(BT) you?
Return(BU) for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your inheritance.(BV)
18 For a little while(BW) your people possessed your holy place,
but now our enemies have trampled(BX) down your sanctuary.(BY)
19 We are yours from of old;
but you have not ruled over them,
they have not been called[c] by your name.(BZ)
64 [d]Oh, that you would rend the heavens(CA) and come down,(CB)
that the mountains(CC) would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name(CD) known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake(CE) before you!
3 For when you did awesome(CF) things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled(CG) before you.
4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,(CH)
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.(CI)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(CJ)
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.(CK)
How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,(CL)
and all our righteous(CM) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(CN)
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(CO)
7 No one(CP) calls on your name(CQ)
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(CR) your face from us
and have given us over(CS) to[e] our sins.
8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(CT)
We are the clay, you are the potter;(CU)
we are all the work of your hand.(CV)
9 Do not be angry(CW) beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins(CX) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.(CY)
10 Your sacred cities(CZ) have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.(DA)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,(DB) where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured(DC) lies in ruins.
12 After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?(DD)
Will you keep silent(DE) 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.(DF)
To a nation(DG) that did not call on my name,(DH)
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,(DI)
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations(DJ)—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,(DK)
offering sacrifices in gardens(DL)
and burning incense(DM) on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves(DN)
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(DO)
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred(DP) for you!’
Such people are smoke(DQ) in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent(DR) but will pay back(DS) in full;
I will pay it back into their laps(DT)—
7 both your sins(DU) and the sins of your ancestors,”(DV)
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,(DW)
I will measure into their laps
the full payment(DX) for their former deeds.”
8 This is what the Lord says:
“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(DY)
and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(DZ)
I will not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants(EA) from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess(EB) my mountains;
my chosen(EC) people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.(ED)
10 Sharon(EE) will become a pasture for flocks,(EF)
and the Valley of Achor(EG) a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek(EH) me.
11 “But as for you who forsake(EI) the Lord
and forget my holy mountain,(EJ)
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine(EK) for Destiny,
12 I will destine you for the sword,(EL)
and all of you will fall in the slaughter;(EM)
for I called but you did not answer,(EN)
I spoke but you did not listen.(EO)
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(EP)
13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“My servants will eat,(EQ)
but you will go hungry;(ER)
my servants will drink,(ES)
but you will go thirsty;(ET)
my servants will rejoice,(EU)
but you will be put to shame.(EV)
14 My servants will sing(EW)
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(EX)
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;(EY)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.(EZ)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(FA) in the land
will do so by the one true God;(FB)
whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear(FC) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(FD) 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.(FE)
The former things will not be remembered,(FF)
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(FG) forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(FH) to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(FI) over Jerusalem
and take delight(FJ) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(FK)
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant(FL) who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;(FM)
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[f] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(FN) and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(FO)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(FP)
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(FQ)
so will be the days(FR) of my people;
my chosen(FS) ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,(FT)
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(FU)
for they will be a people blessed(FV) by the Lord,
they and their descendants(FW) with them.
24 Before they call(FX) I will answer;(FY)
while they are still speaking(FZ) I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb(GA) will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(GB)
and dust will be the serpent’s(GC) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”(GD)
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- 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 62:6-65:25
King James Version
Isaiah 62:6-65:25
King James Version
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.
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