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cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/65.htm" title="Isaiah 65">◄</a> Isaiah 66 <a href="../jeremiah/1.htm" title="Jeremiah 1">►</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">New American Bible Revised Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><section id="ch29066" class="chapter"> <h1 id="cn29066" class="cn"></h1> <section> <h2 class="ahaft">True and False Worship</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="sl1f"><span id="v29066001" class="ver">1</span><a id="rfn29066001-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066001-1">*</a> Thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:</p> <p class="sl">The heavens are my throne,</p> <p class="sl1">the earth, my footstool.</p> <p class="sl">What house can you build for me?</p> <p class="sl1">Where is the place of my rest?<a id="ren29066001-a" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066001-a">a</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066002" class="ver">2</span>My hand made all these things</p> <p class="sl1">when all of them came to be—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="sl">This is the one whom I approve:</p> <p class="sl1">the afflicted one, crushed in spirit,</p> <p class="sl1">who trembles at my word.<a id="ren29066002-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066002-b">b</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066003" class="ver">3</span><a id="rfn29066003-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066003-1">*</a> The one slaughtering an ox, striking a man,</p> <p class="sl1">sacrificing a lamb, breaking a dog’s neck,</p> <p class="sl">Making an offering of pig’s blood,</p> <p class="sl1">burning incense, honoring an idol—</p> <p class="sl">These have chosen their own ways,</p> <p class="sl1">and taken pleasure in their own abominations.<a id="ren29066003-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066003-c">c</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066004" class="ver">4</span>I in turn will choose affliction for them</p> <p class="sl1">and bring upon them what they fear.</p> <p class="sl">Because when I called, no one answered,</p> <p class="sl1">when I spoke, no one listened.</p> <p class="sl">Because they did what was evil in my sight,</p> <p class="sl1">and things I do not delight in they chose,<a id="ren29066004-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066004-d">d</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066005" class="ver">5</span>Hear the word of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>,</p> <p class="sl1">you who tremble at his word!</p> <p class="sl">Your kin who hate you</p> <p class="sl1">and cast you out because of my name say,</p> <p class="sl">“May the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> show his glory,</p> <p class="sl1">that we may see your joy”;</p> <p class="sl1">but they shall be put to shame.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066006" class="ver">6</span>A voice roaring from the city,</p> <p class="sl1">a voice from the temple;</p> <p class="sl">The voice of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span></p> <p class="sl1">rendering recompense to his enemies!<a id="ren29066006-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066006-e">e</a></p> </div> </section> <section> <h2 class="ah">Blessings of Prosperity and Consolation</h2> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29066007" class="ver">7</span><a id="rfn29066007-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066007-1">*</a> Before she is in labor,</p> <p class="sl1">she gives birth;<a id="ren29066007-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066007-f">f</a></p> <p class="sl">Before her pangs come upon her,</p> <p class="sl1">she delivers a male child.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066008" class="ver">8</span>Who ever heard of such a thing,</p> <p class="sl1">or who ever saw the like?</p> <p class="sl">Can a land be brought forth in one day,</p> <p class="sl1">or a nation be born in a single moment?</p> <p class="sl">Yet Zion was scarcely in labor</p> <p class="sl1">when she bore her children.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066009" class="ver">9</span>Shall I bring a mother to the point of birth,</p> <p class="sl1">and yet not let her child be born? says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="sl">Or shall I who bring to birth</p> <p class="sl1">yet close her womb? says your God.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066010" class="ver">10</span><a id="rfn29066010-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066010-1">*</a> Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad because of her,</p> <p class="sl1">all you who love her;</p> <p class="sl">Rejoice with her in her joy,</p> <p class="sl1">all you who mourn over her—<a id="ren29066010-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066010-g">g</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066011" class="ver">11</span>So that you may nurse and be satisfied</p> <p class="sl1">from her consoling breast;</p> <p class="sl">That you may drink with delight</p> <p class="sl1">at her abundant breasts!</p> <p class="sl1"><span id="v29066012" class="ver">12</span>For thus says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>:</p> <p class="sl">I will spread prosperity over her like a river,</p> <p class="sl1">like an overflowing torrent,</p> <p class="sl1">the wealth of nations.</p> <p class="sl">You shall nurse, carried in her arms,</p> <p class="sl1">cradled upon her knees;</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066013" class="ver">13</span>As a mother comforts her child,</p> <p class="sl1">so I will comfort you;</p> <p class="sl1">in Jerusalem you shall find your comfort.<a id="ren29066013-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066013-h">h</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066014" class="ver">14</span>You will see and your heart shall exult,</p> <p class="sl1">and your bodies shall flourish like the grass;</p> <p class="sl">The <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s power shall be revealed to his servants,</p> <p class="sl1">but to his enemies, his wrath.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066015" class="ver">15</span>For see, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will come in fire,</p> <p class="sl1">his chariots like the stormwind;</p> <p class="sl">To wreak his anger in burning rage</p> <p class="sl1">and his rebuke in fiery flames.</p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066016" class="ver">16</span>For with fire the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall enter into judgment,</p> <p class="sl1">and, with his sword, against all flesh;</p> <p class="sl1l">Those slain by the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> shall be many.<a id="ren29066016-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066016-i">i</a></p> </div> <p><span id="v29066017" class="ver">17</span><a id="rfn29066017-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066017-1">*</a> Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who stands within, eating pig’s flesh, abominable things, and mice, shall all together come to an end, with their deeds and purposes—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">God Gathers the Nations.</span> <span id="v29066018" class="ver">18</span><a id="rfn29066018-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066018-1">*</a> I am coming to gather all nations and tongues; they shall come and see my glory.<a id="ren29066018-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066018-j">j</a> <span id="v29066019" class="ver">19</span>I will place a sign among them; from them I will send survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Put and Lud, Mosoch, Tubal and Javan, to the distant coastlands which have never heard of my fame, or seen my glory; and they shall proclaim my glory among the nations. <span id="v29066020" class="ver">20</span>They shall bring all your kin from all the nations as an offering to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, on horses and in chariots, in carts, upon mules and dromedaries, to Jerusalem, my holy mountain, says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, just as the Israelites bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>. <span id="v29066021" class="ver">21</span>Some of these I will take as priests and Levites, says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.</p> <div class="senseline"> <p class="slf"><span id="v29066022" class="ver">22</span>Just as the new heavens and the new earth</p> <p class="sl1">which I am making</p> <p class="sl">Shall endure before me—oracle of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>—</p> <p class="sl1">so shall your descendants and your name endure.<a id="ren29066022-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066022-k">k</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066023" class="ver">23</span>From new moon to new moon,</p> <p class="sl1">and from sabbath to sabbath,</p> <p class="sl">All flesh shall come to worship</p> <p class="sl1">before me, says the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>.<a id="ren29066023-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066023-l">l</a></p> <p class="sl"><span id="v29066024" class="ver">24</span><a id="rfn29066024-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn29066024-1">*</a> They shall go out and see the corpses<a id="ren29066024-m" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en29066024-m">m</a></p> <p class="sl1">of the people who rebelled against me;</p> <p class="sl">For their worm shall not die,</p> <p class="sl1">their fire shall not be extinguished;</p> <p class="sl1">and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.</p> </div> </section> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 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