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Stop bringing meaningless offerings! Your incense is detestable to me. New Moons, Sabbaths and convocations— I cannot bear your worthless assemblies.
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Your New Moon feasts and your appointed festivals I hate with all my being. They have become a burden to me; I am weary of bearing them.
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Bind up this testimony of warning and seal up God’s instruction among my disciples.
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Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
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God’s Judgment on Assyria
“Woe to the Assyrian, the rod of my anger, in whose hand is the club of my wrath!
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The new wine dries up and the vine withers; all the merrymakers groan.
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until I come and take you to a land like your own—a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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Comfort for God’s People
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God.
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You who bring good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who bring good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with a shout, lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the towns of Judah, “Here is your God!”
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“See, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
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I was the first to tell Zion, ‘Look, here they are!’ I gave to Jerusalem a messenger of good news.
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See, the former things have taken place, and new things I declare; before they spring into being I announce them to you.”
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Song of Praise to the Lord
Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise from the ends of the earth, you who go down to the sea, and all that is in it, you islands, and all who live in them.
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God’s Mercy and Israel’s Unfaithfulness
This is what the Lord says— your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “For your sake I will send to Babylon and bring down as fugitives all the Babylonians, in the ships in which they took pride.
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See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
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You have heard these things; look at them all. Will you not admit them? “From now on I will tell you of new things, of hidden things unknown to you.
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How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
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God’s Accusation Against the Wicked
Come, all you beasts of the field, come and devour, all you beasts of the forest!
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The Year of the Lord’s Favor
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners,
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Zion’s New Name
For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet, till her vindication shines out like the dawn, her salvation like a blazing torch.
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The nations will see your vindication, and all kings your glory; you will be called by a new name that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
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The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “Never again will I give your grain as food for your enemies, and never again will foreigners drink the new wine for which you have toiled;
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God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with his garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendor, striding forward in the greatness of his strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.”
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New Heavens and a New Earth
“See, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
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“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.
