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64 Oh, that You would break the heavens and come down, that the mountains might melt at Your presence!

² As the melting fire burned, the fire caused the waters to boil, (so that You might declare Your Name to Your adversaries) the people trembled at Your presence.

³ When You did terrible things, which we did not look for, You came down and the mountains melted at Your presence.

⁴ For since the beginning of the world, they have neither heard nor understood with the ear. Nor has the eye seen another God beside You Who does so to him who waits for Him.

⁵ You met him who rejoiced and did justly. They remembered You in Your ways. Behold, You are angry, for we have sinned, continually. Yet, we shall be saved.

⁶ For we have all been as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness as filthy cloths. And we all fade like a leaf. And our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.

⁷ And there is no one who calls upon Your Name, or who stirs himself up to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your Face from us, and have consumed us because of our iniquities.

⁸ But now, O LORD, You are our Father. We are the clay and You are our Potter. And we all are the work of Your Hands.

⁹ Do not be angry above measure, O LORD, or remember iniquity forever. Lo, we beg You. Behold, we are all Your people.

¹⁰ Your holy cities lie desolate. Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desert.

¹¹ The House of our Sanctuary, and of our glory, where our fathers praised You, is burnt up with fire. And all our pleasant things are wasted.

¹² Will You hold Yourself still at these things, O LORD? Will You hold Your peace and afflict us above measure?

65 “I have been sought by those who did not ask. I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Behold Me! Behold Me!’ to a nation that did not call upon My Name.

² “I have spread out My Hands all day to a rebellious people, who walked in a way that was not good, after their own imaginations,

³ “a people that always provoked Me to My Face, who sacrifices in gardens and burns incense upon bricks,

⁴ “who remain among the graves and lodge in the deserts, who eat swine’s flesh with the broth of things polluted in their vessels,

⁵ “who say, ‘Stay away. Do not come near to me. For I am holier than you.’ These are a smoke in My wrath, a fire that burns all the day.

⁶ “Behold, it is written before Me. I will not keep silence, but will render it and repay it into their bosom.

⁷ “Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers, shall be together,” says the LORD, “who have burnt incense upon the mountains and blasphemed Me upon the hills. Therefore, I will measure their old work into their bosom.”

⁸ Thus says the LORD: “As the wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,’ so will I do for My servants’ sakes, so that I might not destroy them altogether.

⁹ “But I will bring a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah, that shall inherit My mountain. And My Elect shall inherit it. And My servants shall dwell there.

¹⁰ “And Sharon shall be a sheepfold. And the valley of Achor shall be a resting place for the cattle of My people who have sought Me.

¹¹ “But you are those who have forsaken the LORD, and forgotten My holy Mountain, and have prepared a table for the multitude, and furnish the drink offerings to the number.

¹² “Therefore, I will number you for the sword. And all you shall bow down to the slaughter, because I called and you did not answer. I spoke and you did not hear, but did evil in My sight, and chose that thing which I did not desire.”

¹³ Therefore, thus says the LORD God: “Behold, My servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry. Behold, My servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. Behold, My servants shall rejoice, and you shall be ashamed.

¹⁴ “Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for crushing of spirit.

¹⁵ “And you shall leave your name as a curse to My Chosen. For the LORD God shall slay you and call His servants by another name.

¹⁶ “He who shall bless on the Earth, shall bless himself in the true God. And he who swears on the Earth, shall swear by the true God. For the former troubles are forgotten, and shall surely hide themselves from My Eyes.

¹⁷ “For lo, I will create new heavens and a new Earth. And the former shall neither be remembered nor come to mind.

¹⁸ “But be glad and rejoice forever in the things that I shall create. For behold, I will create Jerusalem as a rejoicing, and her people as a joy.

¹⁹ “And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and joy in My people. And the voice of weeping shall be heard no more in her, nor the voice of crying.

²⁰ “No more shall there be there a child of no years, or an old man who has not filled his days. For he who shall be a hundred years old shall die a young man. But the sinner being a 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 the tree are the days of My people. And My Elect shall enjoy the work of their hands in old age.

²³ “They shall neither labor in vain nor bring forth in fear. For they are the seed of the Blessed of the LORD, and their buds with them.

²⁴ “Yea, before they call, I will answer. And while they speak, I will hear.

²⁵ “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. And dust shall be food to the serpent. They shall neither hurt nor destroy anymore, in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

66 Thus says the LORD: “The heaven is My throne, and the Earth is My footstool. Where is that House that you would build Me? And where is that place of My rest?

² “For all these things has My Hand made. And all these things have been,” says the LORD, “And to him will I look, to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembles at My words.

³ “He who kills an ox is as if he killed a man, he who sacrifices a sheep as if he broke a dog’s neck, he who offers an oblation as if he offered swine’s blood, he who remembers incense as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways and their soul delights in their abominations.

⁴ “Therefore, I will choose their delusions and I will bring their fear upon them. Because I called, and no one would answer. I speak, and they would not hear. But they did evil in My sight and chose the things which I would not.”

⁵ “Hear the Word of the LORD, all you who tremble at His Word. “Your brothers who hated you, and 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 sounds from the city, a Voice from the Temple, the Voice of the LORD, Who recompenses His enemies fully.

⁷ “Before she labored, she brought forth. And 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 brought forth in one day? Or shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion labored, she brought forth her children.

⁹ “Shall I cause to labor and not bring forth? Shall I cause to bring forth and not deliver?” says the LORD.

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 “So that you may nurse and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolation. So that you may drink deeply and be delighted with the brightness of her glory.”

¹² For thus says the LORD: “Behold, I will extend peace over her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream. Then shall you suck. You shall be born upon her sides and be joyful upon her knees.

¹³ “As one whom his mother comforts, so will I comfort you. And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.”

¹⁴ And when you see this, your hearts shall rejoice. And your bones shall flourish like grass. And the hand of the LORD shall be known among His servants, and His indignation against His enemies.

¹⁵ For behold, the LORD will come with fire, and His chariots like a whirlwind, so that He may repay His anger with wrath, and His indignation with the flame of fire.

¹⁶ For the LORD will judge with fire, and all flesh with His sword. And the slain of the LORD shall be many.

¹⁷ “Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens, after one in the midst, eating swine’s flesh and such abominations (even the mouse), shall be consumed together,” says the LORD.

¹⁸ “For I will visit their works and their imaginations. For 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 will send those among them who escape to the nations of Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, to those who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, far off isles that have not heard of My fame, or seen My Glory. And they shall declare My Glory among the Gentiles.

²⁰ “And they shall bring all your brethren for an offering to the LORD out of all nations, upon horses and in chariots and in horse litters and upon mules and swift beasts, to Jerusalem, My Holy Mountain,” says the LORD, “as the children of Israel offer in a clean vessel in the House of the LORD.

²¹ “And I will take from them for priests, for Levites,” says the LORD.

²² “For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before Me,” says the LORD, “so shall your seed and your name continue.

²³ “And from month to month, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, shall all flesh come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.

²⁴ “And they shall go forth and look upon the carcasses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For their worm shall not die, nor shall their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.”