Isaiah 66

Revised Geneva Translation

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.”