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align="center" cellpadding="0" 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 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 Worship God Demands</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">1</span>Thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span></span><br /><span class="text">Heaven is my throne</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the earth is my footstool;</span></span><br /><span class="text">what is the house that you would build for me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and what is my resting place?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>All these things my hand has made,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and so all these things are mine,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22811a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span></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">But this is the one to whom I will look,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">to the humble and contrite in spirit,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">who trembles at my word.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human being;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">whoever sacrifices a lamb, like one who breaks a dog’s neck;</span></span><br /><span class="text">whoever presents a grain offering, like one who offers swine’s blood;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22812b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense, like one who blesses an idol.</span></span><br /><span class="text">These have chosen their own ways,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and in their abominations they take delight;</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>I also will choose to mock<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22813c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> them,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and bring upon them what they fear;</span></span><br /><span class="text">because, when I called, no one answered,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">when I spoke, they did not listen;</span></span><br /><span class="text">but they 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 did not please me.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> Vindicates Zion</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>Hear the word of 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">you who tremble at his word:</span></span><br /><span class="text">Your own people who hate you</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and reject you for my name’s sake</span></span><br /><span class="text">have said, “Let the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> be glorified,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so that we may see your joy”;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">but it is they who shall be put to shame.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>Listen, an uproar from the city!</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">A voice from the temple!</span></span><br /><span class="text">The voice of 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">dealing retribution to his enemies!</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Before she was in labor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">she gave birth;</span></span><br /><span class="text">before her pain came upon her</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">she delivered a son.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>Who has heard of such a thing?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Who has seen such things?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Shall a land be born in one day?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">Shall a nation be delivered in one moment?</span></span><br /><span class="text">Yet as soon as Zion was in labor</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">she delivered her children.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Shall I open the womb and not deliver?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>;</span></span><br /><span class="text">shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">says your God.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all you who love her;</span></span><br /><span class="text">rejoice with her in joy,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">all you who mourn over her—</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>that you may nurse and be satisfied</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from her consoling breast;</span></span><br /><span class="text">that you may drink deeply with delight</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">from her glorious bosom.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>For thus says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>:</span><br /><span class="text">I will extend prosperity to her like a river,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and dandled on her knees.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>As a mother comforts her child,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">so I will comfort you;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.</span></span></p></div> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Reign and Indignation of God</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">your bodies<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22823d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> shall flourish like the grass;</span></span><br /><span class="text">and it shall be known that the hand of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> is with his servants,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his indignation is against his enemies.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will come in fire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his chariots like the whirlwind,</span></span><br /><span class="text">to pay back his anger in fury,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and his rebuke in flames of fire.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>For by fire will the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> execute judgment,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and by his sword, on all flesh;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and those slain by the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> shall be many.</span></span></p></div> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following the one in the center, eating the flesh of pigs, vermin, and rodents, shall come to an end together, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>For I know<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22827e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> their works and their thoughts, and I am<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22827f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> coming to gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come and shall see my glory, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and I will set a sign among them. From them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-22828g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> and Lud—which draw the bow—to Tubal and Javan, to the coastlands far away that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>They shall bring all your kindred from all the nations as an offering to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, just as the Israelites bring a grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>And I will also take some of them as priests and as Levites, says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>For as the new heavens and the new earth,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">which I will make,</span></span><br /><span class="text">shall remain before me, says 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">so shall your descendants and your name remain.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>From new moon to new moon,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks"> </span><span class="text">and from sabbath to sabbath,</span></span><br /><span class="text">all flesh shall come to worship before me,</span><br /><span class="text">says the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>.</span></p></div> <p class="top-1"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>And they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the people who have rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:2">Isaiah 66:2</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb <i>these things came to be</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:3">Isaiah 66:3</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:4">Isaiah 66:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>to punish</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:14">Isaiah 66:14</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>bones</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:18">Isaiah 66:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr: Heb lacks <i>know</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:18">Isaiah 66:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb <i>it is</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Isaiah 66:19">Isaiah 66:19</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>Pul</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 Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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