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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">New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition</td><td width="1%" valign="top"></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="text-html"> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Righteousness of God’s Judgment</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to be found by those who did not seek me.</span></span><br /><span class="text">I said, “Here I am, here I am,”</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to a nation that did not call on my name.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>I held out my hands all day long</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to a rebellious people,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who walk in a way that is not good,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">following their own devices;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>a people who provoke me</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to my face continually,</span></span><br /><span class="text">sacrificing in gardens</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and offering incense on bricks;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>who sit inside tombs,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and spend the night in secret places;</span></span><br /><span class="text">who eat swine’s flesh,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">with broth of abominable things in their vessels;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>who say, “Keep to yourself,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”</span></span><br /><span class="text">These are a smoke in my nostrils,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">a fire that burns all day long.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>See, it is written before me:</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">I will not keep silent, but I will repay;</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will indeed repay into their laps</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span>their<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22791a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> iniquities and their<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22791b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span> ancestors’ iniquities together,</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because they offered incense on the mountains</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and reviled me on the hills,</span></span><br /><span class="text">I will measure into their laps</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">full payment for their actions.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">As the wine is found in the cluster,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and they say, “Do not destroy it,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for there is a blessing in it,”</span></span><br /><span class="text">so I will do for my servants’ sake,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and not destroy them all.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>I will bring forth descendants<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22793c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> from Jacob,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and from Judah inheritors<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22793d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> of my mountains;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my chosen shall inherit it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my servants shall settle there.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">for my people who have sought me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>But you who forsake the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who forget my holy mountain,</span></span><br /><span class="text">who set a table for Fortune</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>I will destine you to the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because, when I called, you did not answer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when I spoke, you did not listen,</span></span><br /><span class="text">but you did what was evil in my sight,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and chose what I did not delight in.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>Therefore thus says the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">My servants shall eat,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you shall be hungry;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my servants shall drink,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you shall be thirsty;</span></span><br /><span class="text">my servants shall rejoice,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you shall be put to shame;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but you shall cry out for pain of heart,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and shall wail for anguish of spirit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the Lord <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">God</span> will put you to death;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but to his servants he will give a different name.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Then whoever invokes a blessing in the land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shall bless by the God of faithfulness,</span></span><br /><span class="text">and whoever takes an oath in the land</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">shall swear by the God of faithfulness;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because the former troubles are forgotten</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and are hidden from my sight.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Glorious New Creation</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>For I am about to create new heavens</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and a new earth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">the former things shall not be remembered</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or come to mind.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>But be glad and rejoice forever</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">in what I am creating;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and its people as a delight.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>I will rejoice in Jerusalem,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and delight in my people;</span></span><br /><span class="text">no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or the cry of distress.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>No more shall there be in it</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">an infant that lives but a few days,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or an old person who does not live out a lifetime;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>They shall build houses and inhabit them;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>They shall not build and another inhabit;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">they shall not plant and another eat;</span></span><br /><span class="text">for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>They shall not labor in vain,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">or bear children for calamity;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22807e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span class="text">for they shall be offspring blessed by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>—</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and their descendants as well.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>Before they call I will answer,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">while they are yet speaking I will hear.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">the lion shall eat straw like the ox;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but the serpent—its food shall be dust!</span></span><br /><span class="text">They shall not hurt or destroy</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">on all my holy mountain,</span></span><br /><span class="right"><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 65:7">Isaiah 65:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>your</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 65:7">Isaiah 65:7</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>your</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 65:9">Isaiah 65:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>a descendant</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 65:9">Isaiah 65:9</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>an inheritor</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 65:23">Isaiah 65:23</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>sudden terror</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version 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