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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 International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/isaiah/66.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Judgment and Hope</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>This is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“Heaven is my throne,</p><p class="line2">and the earth is my footstool.</p><p class="line1">Where is the house you will build for me?</p><p class="line2">Where will my resting place be?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Has not my hand made all these things,</p><p class="line2">and so they came into being?”</p><p class="attribution">declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“These are the ones I look on with favor:</p><p class="line2">those who are humble and contrite in spirit,</p><p class="line2">and who tremble at my word.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But whoever sacrifices a bull</p><p class="line2">is like one who kills a person,</p><p class="line1">and whoever offers a lamb</p><p class="line2">is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;</p><p class="line1">whoever makes a grain offering</p><p class="line2">is like one who presents pig’s blood,</p><p class="line1">and whoever burns memorial incense</p><p class="line2">is like one who worships an idol.</p><p class="line1">They have chosen their own ways,</p><p class="line2">and they delight in their abominations;</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>so I also will choose harsh treatment for them</p><p class="line2">and will bring on them what they dread.</p><p class="line1">For when I called, no one answered,</p><p class="line2">when I spoke, no one listened.</p><p class="line1">They did evil in my sight</p><p class="line2">and chose what displeases me.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Hear the word of the <span class="name">Lord</span>,</p><p class="line2">you who tremble at his word:</p><p class="line1">“Your own people who hate you,</p><p class="line2">and exclude you because of my name, have said,</p><p class="line1">‘Let the <span class="name">Lord</span> be glorified,</p><p class="line2">that we may see your joy!’</p><p class="line2">Yet they will be put to shame.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Hear that uproar from the city,</p><p class="line2">hear that noise from the temple!</p><p class="line1">It is the sound of the <span class="name">Lord</span></p><p class="line2">repaying his enemies all they deserve.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Before she goes into labor,</p><p class="line2">she gives birth;</p><p class="line1">before the pains come upon her,</p><p class="line2">she delivers a son.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Who has ever heard of such things?</p><p class="line2">Who has ever seen things like this?</p><p class="line1">Can a country be born in a day</p><p class="line2">or a nation be brought forth in a moment?</p><p class="line1">Yet no sooner is Zion in labor</p><p class="line2">than she gives birth to her children.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do I bring to the moment of birth</p><p class="line2">and not give delivery?” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p><p class="line1">“Do I close up the womb</p><p class="line2">when I bring to delivery?” says your God.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,</p><p class="line2">all you who love her;</p><p class="line1">rejoice greatly with her,</p><p class="line2">all you who mourn over her.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For you will nurse and be satisfied</p><p class="line2">at her comforting breasts;</p><p class="line1">you will drink deeply</p><p class="line2">and delight in her overflowing abundance.”</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For this is what the <span class="name">Lord</span> says:</p><div class="stanza"><p class="line1">“I will extend peace to her like a river,</p><p class="line2">and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;</p><p class="line1">you will nurse and be carried on her arm</p><p class="line2">and dandled on her knees.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>As a mother comforts her child,</p><p class="line2">so will I comfort you;</p><p class="line2">and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>When you see this, your heart will rejoice</p><p class="line2">and you will flourish like grass;</p><p class="line1">the hand of the <span class="name">Lord</span> will be made known to his servants,</p><p class="line2">but his fury will be shown to his foes.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>See, the <span class="name">Lord</span> is coming with fire,</p><p class="line2">and his chariots are like a whirlwind;</p><p class="line1">he will bring down his anger with fury,</p><p class="line2">and his rebuke with flames of fire.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For with fire and with his sword</p><p class="line2">the <span class="name">Lord</span> will execute judgment on all people,</p><p class="line2">and many will be those slain by the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p></div> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things—they will meet their end together with the one they follow,” declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.">a</a></sup></span> and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations—to Tarshish, to the Libyans <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul">b</a></sup></span> and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the <span class="name">Lord</span>—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the <span class="name">Lord</span> in ceremonially clean vessels. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,” declares the <span class="name">Lord</span>, “so will your name and descendants endure. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,” says the <span class="name">Lord</span>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/isaiah/66-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some Septuagint manuscripts <i>Put</i> (Libyans); Hebrew <i>Pul</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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