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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Isaiah 65 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/isaiah/65.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/isaiah/65-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Brenton</a> > Isaiah 65</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/64.htm" title="Isaiah 64">◄</a> Isaiah 65 <a href="../isaiah/66.htm" title="Isaiah 66">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/65-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Judgments and Promises<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I became manifest to them that asked not for me; I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold, I am <i>here</i>, to a nation, who called not on my name.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, <i>even</i> they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of <i>their</i> sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>their sins and <i>the sins</i> of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burnt incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thus saith the Lord, As a grape-stone shall be found in the cluster, and they shall say, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for the sake of him that serves me, for his sake I will not destroy <i>them</i> all.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I will lead forth the seed <i>that came</i> of Jacob and of Juda, and they shall inherit my holy mountain: and mine elect and my servants shall inherit it, and shall dwell there.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And there shall be in the forest folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor <i>shall</i> be for a resting-place of herds for my people, who have sought me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But ye are they that have left me, and forget my holy mountain, and prepare a table for the devil, and fill up the drink-offering to Fortune.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I will deliver you up to the sword, ye shall all fall by slaughter: for I called you, and ye hearkened not; I spoke, and ye refused to hear; and ye did evil in my sight, and chose the things wherein I delighted not.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Therefore thus saith the Lord, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall hunger: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall thirst: behold my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>behold, my servants shall exult with joy, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of your heart, and shall howl for the vexation of your spirit.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For ye shall leave your name for a loathing to my chosen, and the Lord shall destroy you: but my servants shall be called by a new name,<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>which shall be blessed on the earth; for they shall bless the true God: and they that swear upon the earth shall swear by the true God; for they shall forget the former affliction, it shall not come into their mind.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">A New Heaven and a New Earth<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth: and they shall not at all remember the former, neither shall they at all come into their mind.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But they shall find in her joy and exultation; for, behold, I make Jerusalem a rejoicing, and my people a joy.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and will be glad in my people: and there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping, or the voice of crying.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Neither shall there be there any more a <i>child that dies</i> untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years <i>old</i>, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>and they shall build houses, and themselves shall dwell in <i>them</i>; and they shall plant vineyards, and themselves shall eat the fruit thereof.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labours.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>My chosen shall not toil in vain, neither shall they beget children to be cursed; for they are a seed blessed of God, and their offspring with them.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass, <i>that</i> before they call, I will hearken to them; while they are yet speaking, I will say, What is it? <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then wolves and lambs shall feed together, and the lion shall eat chaff like the ox, and the serpent earth as bread. They shall not injure nor destroy in my holy mountain, saith the Lord.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../isaiah/64.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 64"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 64" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../isaiah/66.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 66"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 66" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>