Isaiah 60-65
English Standard Version
The Future Glory of Israel
60 (A)Arise, shine, for your light has come,
and (B)the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.
2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth,
and thick darkness the peoples;
but the Lord will arise upon you,
and his glory will be seen upon you.
3 (C)And nations shall come to your light,
and kings to the brightness of your rising.
4 (D)Lift up your eyes all around, and see;
they all gather together, they come to you;
(E)your sons shall come from afar,
and your daughters shall be carried on the hip.
5 Then you shall see and (F)be radiant;
your heart shall thrill and exult,[a]
because the abundance of the sea shall be turned to you,
(G)the wealth of the nations shall come to you.
6 A multitude of camels shall cover you,
the young camels of (H)Midian and (I)Ephah;
all those from (J)Sheba shall come.
(K)They shall bring gold and frankincense,
and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.
7 All the flocks of (L)Kedar shall be gathered to you;
the rams of (M)Nebaioth shall minister to you;
(N)they shall come up with acceptance on my altar,
(O)and I will beautify my beautiful house.
8 Who are these that fly like a cloud,
and (P)like doves to their windows?
9 For (Q)the coastlands shall hope for me,
(R)the ships of Tarshish first,
(S)to bring your children from afar,
their silver and gold with them,
for the name of the Lord your God,
and for the Holy One of Israel,
because (T)he has made you beautiful.
10 (U)Foreigners shall build up your walls,
and (V)their kings shall minister to you;
for in my wrath I struck you,
but in my favor I have had mercy on you.
11 (W)Your gates shall be open continually;
day and night they shall not be shut,
(X)that people may bring to you the wealth of the nations,
with their kings led in procession.
12 (Y)For the nation and kingdom
that will not serve you shall perish;
those nations shall be utterly laid waste.
13 (Z)The glory of Lebanon shall come to you,
the cypress, the plane, and (AA)the pine,
to beautify the place of my sanctuary,
and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
14 (AB)The sons of those who afflicted you
shall come bending low to you,
(AC)and all who despised you
shall bow down at your feet;
(AD)they shall call you the City of the Lord,
the Zion of the Holy One of Israel.
15 (AE)Whereas you have been forsaken and hated,
with no one passing through,
(AF)I will make you majestic forever,
a joy from age to age.
16 (AG)You shall suck the milk of nations;
you shall nurse at the breast of kings;
and you shall know that (AH)I, the Lord, am your Savior
and your Redeemer, (AI)the Mighty One of Jacob.
17 Instead of bronze I will bring gold,
and instead of iron I will bring silver;
instead of wood, bronze,
instead of stones, iron.
I will make your overseers peace
(AJ)and your taskmasters righteousness.
18 (AK)Violence shall no more be heard in your land,
devastation or destruction within your borders;
(AL)you shall call your walls Salvation,
and your gates Praise.
19 (AM)The sun shall be no more
your light by day,
nor for brightness shall the moon
give you light;[b]
but the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and your God will be your glory.[c]
20 Your sun shall no more go down,
nor your moon withdraw itself;
for the Lord will be your everlasting light,
and (AN)your days of mourning shall be ended.
21 (AO)Your people shall all be righteous;
(AP)they shall possess the land forever,
(AQ)the branch of my planting, the work of my hands,
that I might be glorified.[d]
22 (AR)The least one shall become a clan,
and the smallest one a mighty nation;
(AS)I am the Lord;
in its time I will hasten it.
The Year of the Lord's Favor
61 (AT)The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me,
because the Lord has (AU)anointed me
to bring good news to the poor;[e]
he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives,
and (AV)the opening of the prison to those who are bound;[f]
2 (AW)to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor,
(AX)and the day of vengeance of our God;
to comfort all who mourn;
3 to grant to those who mourn in Zion—
(AY)to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes,
(AZ)the oil of gladness instead of mourning,
the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit;
(BA)that they may be called oaks of righteousness,
the planting of the Lord, (BB)that he may be glorified.[g]
4 (BC)They shall build up the ancient ruins;
they shall raise up the former devastations;
they shall repair the ruined cities,
the devastations of many generations.
5 (BD)Strangers shall stand and tend your flocks;
foreigners shall be your plowmen and vinedressers;
6 (BE)but you shall be called the priests of the Lord;
they shall speak of you as the ministers of our God;
(BF)you shall eat the wealth of the nations,
and in their glory you shall boast.
7 (BG)Instead of your shame there shall be a double portion;
instead of dishonor they shall rejoice in their lot;
therefore in their land they shall possess a double portion;
they shall have everlasting joy.
8 (BH)For I the Lord love justice;
I hate robbery and wrong;[h]
(BI)I will faithfully give them their recompense,
(BJ)and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
9 Their offspring shall be known among the nations,
and their descendants in the midst of the peoples;
all who see them shall acknowledge them,
that they are an offspring the Lord has blessed.
10 (BK)I will greatly rejoice in the Lord;
my soul shall exult in my God,
(BL)for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation;
he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,
as a bridegroom decks himself (BM)like a priest with a beautiful headdress,
(BN)and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
11 For as the earth brings forth its sprouts,
and as a garden causes what is sown in it to sprout up,
so the Lord God will cause (BO)righteousness and praise
to sprout up before all the nations.
Zion's Coming Salvation
62 (BP)For Zion's sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet,
(BQ)until her righteousness goes forth as brightness,
and her salvation as a burning torch.
2 (BR)The nations shall see your righteousness,
and all the kings your glory,
(BS)and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.
3 You shall be (BT)a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord,
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 (BU)You shall no more be termed (BV)Forsaken,[i]
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,[j]
(BW)but you shall be called (BX)My Delight Is in Her,[k]
and your land Married;[l]
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so (BY)shall your sons marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so (BZ)shall your God rejoice over you.
6 On your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have set (CA)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 (CB)a praise in the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn (CC)by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“I will not again give (CD)your grain
to be food for your enemies,
(CE)and foreigners shall not drink your wine
for which you have labored;
9 but (CF)those who garner it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and (CG)those who gather it shall drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”[m]
10 Go through, go through the gates;
(CH)prepare the way for the people;
(CI)build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
(CJ)lift up a signal over the peoples.
11 Behold, the Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
(CK)Say to the daughter of Zion,
(CL)“Behold, your salvation comes;
behold, his reward is with him,
and his recompense before him.”
12 (CM)And they shall be called The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord;
(CN)and you shall be called Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.
The Lord's Day of Vengeance
63 Who is this who comes from (CO)Edom,
in crimsoned garments from (CP)Bozrah,
he who is splendid in his apparel,
(CQ)marching in the greatness of his strength?
“It is I, speaking in righteousness,
mighty to save.”
3 (CT)“I have trodden the winepress alone,
(CU)and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their lifeblood[n] spattered on my garments,
and stained all my apparel.
4 (CV)For the day of vengeance was in my heart,
and my year of redemption[o] had come.
5 I looked, but (CW)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;
(CX)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,
(CY)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 (CZ)In all their affliction he was afflicted,[p]
and the angel of his presence saved them;
(DA)in his love and in his pity he redeemed them;
(DB)he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
10 (DC)But they rebelled
(DD)and grieved his Holy Spirit;
therefore he turned to be their enemy,
and himself fought against them.
11 Then he remembered (DE)the days of old,
of Moses and his people.[q]
(DF)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,
(DG)who divided the waters before them
(DH)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,
(DI)the Spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
So you led your people,
(DJ)to make for yourself a glorious name.
Prayer for Mercy
15 (DK)Look down from heaven and see,
(DL)from your holy and beautiful[r] habitation.
Where are (DM)your zeal and your might?
The stirring of your inner parts and your compassion
are held back from me.
16 For (DN)you are our Father,
though Abraham does not know us,
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our Father,
(DO)our Redeemer from of old is your name.
17 O Lord, why do you make us wander from your ways
and (DP)harden our heart, so that we fear you not?
(DQ)Return for the sake of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.
18 (DR)Your holy people held possession for a little while;[s]
(DS)our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.
19 (DT)We have become like those over whom you have never ruled,
like those who are not called by your name.
64 (DU)Oh that you would rend the heavens and come down,
(DV)that the mountains might quake at your presence—
2 [t] as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
(DW)to make your name known to your adversaries,
and that the nations might tremble at your presence!
3 (DX)When you did awesome things that we did not look for,
you came down, the mountains quaked at your presence.
4 (DY)From of old no one has heard
or perceived by the ear,
(DZ)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?[u]
6 (EA)We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a polluted garment.
(EB)We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.
7 (EC)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[v] the hand of our iniquities.
8 (ED)But now, O Lord, you are our Father;
(EE)we are the clay, and you are our potter;
(EF)we are all the work of your hand.
9 (EG)Be not so terribly angry, O Lord,
(EH)and remember not iniquity forever.
Behold, please look, we are all your people.
10 (EI)Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.
11 (EJ)Our holy and beautiful[w] house,
where our fathers praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.
12 (EK)Will you restrain yourself at these things, O Lord?
Will you keep silent, and afflict us so terribly?
Judgment and Salvation
65 (EL)I was ready to be sought by (EM)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[x] my name.
2 (EN)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,
(EO)sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;
4 who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
(EP)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.”
(EQ)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the day.
6 Behold, (ER)it is written before me:
(ES)“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
(ET)I will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities (EU)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
(EV)because they made offerings on the mountains
(EW)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[y]
8 Thus says the Lord:
(EX)“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,
(EY)and not destroy them all.
9 (EZ)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 (FA)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and (FB)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people (FC)who have sought me.
11 But (FD)you who forsake the Lord,
who forget (FE)my holy mountain,
who (FF)set a table for Fortune
and (FG)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,
(FH)because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not listen,
(FI)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, (FJ)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, (FK)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 (FL)my chosen (FM)for a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants (FN)he will call by another name,
16 so that he who (FO)blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by (FP)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by (FQ)the God of truth;
(FR)because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “For behold, (FS)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, (FT)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.
19 (FU)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
(FV)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 (FW)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and (FX)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 (FY)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
22 (FZ)They shall not build and another inhabit;
they shall not plant and another eat;
(GA)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
and my chosen shall long enjoy[z] the work of their hands.
23 (GB)They shall not labor in vain
(GC)or bear children for calamity,[aa]
for (GD)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
and their descendants with them.
24 (GE)Before they call I will answer;
(GF)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
25 (GG)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and (GH)dust shall be the serpent's food.
(GI)They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the Lord.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 60:5 Hebrew your heart shall tremble and grow wide
- Isaiah 60:19 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint, Targum add by night
- Isaiah 60:19 Or your beauty
- Isaiah 60:21 Or that I might display my beauty
- Isaiah 61:1 Or afflicted
- Isaiah 61:1 Or the opening [of the eyes] to those who are blind; Septuagint and recovery of sight to the blind
- Isaiah 61:3 Or that he may display his beauty
- Isaiah 61:8 Or robbery with a burnt offering
- 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
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