Isaiah 65

Revised Geneva Translation

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.