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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 Smith's Literal 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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal 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<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../romans/10.htm">Romans 10:1–21</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I was sought by them they asked not; I was found by them not seeking me: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation not calling upon my name.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day.<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Behold, it written before me: I will not be silent, but I requited, and I requited upon their bosom,<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine will be found in the cluster, and he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it, for a blessing in it: thus will I do for sake of my servant, to not destroy them all.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And I brought forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah he shall inherit my mountain: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell their.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and 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 shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes.<p> <A name="18"></a><p class="hdg">A New Heaven and a New Earth<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../revelation/21.htm">Revelation 21:1–8</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But be ye glad and rejoice even forever, for what I create: for behold me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her people a rejoicing.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And I rejoiced in Jerusalem, and was glad in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, and the voice of crying.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>There shall be no more from thence a child of days, and an old man who shall not fill up his days: for the boy shall die the son of a hundred years and he sinning, the son of a hundred years, shall be cursed.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they built houses and they dwelt in them; and they planted vineyards, and they ate the fruit.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: for as the days of a tree the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>They shall not labor in vain, and they shall not bring forth for terror; for they the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, 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 was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear. <span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and the serpent, dust his bread. 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