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I said, 'Here I am! Here I am!' to a nation that did not invoke my name. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me; I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that was not called by my name.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext1">These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="btext2">a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="btext2">who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They say, 'Keep to yourself! Don't get near me, for I am holier than you!' These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="btext2">who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Behold, it is written before me: “I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext1">for your sins and your ancestors' sins," says the LORD. "Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure." <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="btext2">both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together, says the LORD; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their lap payment for their former deeds.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext1">This is what the LORD says: "When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes, someone says, 'Don't destroy it, for it contains juice.' So I will do for the sake of my servants--I will not destroy everyone. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Thus says the LORD: “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, and not destroy them all.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains. My chosen ones will take possession of the land; my servants will live there. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Sharon will become a pasture for sheep, and the Valley of Achor a place where cattle graze; they will belong to my people, who seek me. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for my people who have sought me.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But as for you who abandon the LORD and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain, who prepare a feast for the god called 'Fortune,' and fill up wine jugs for the god called 'Destiny'--<td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who set a table for Fortune and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext1">I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond, I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me." <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will destine you to the sword, and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter, because, when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen, but you did what was evil in my eyes and chose what I did not delight in.”</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext1">So this is what the sovereign LORD says: "Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry! Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty! Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated! <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: “Behold, my servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, my servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame;</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts! But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="btext2">behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart, but you shall cry out for pain of heart and shall wail for breaking of spirit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The sovereign LORD will kill you, but he will give his servants another name. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="btext2">You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse, and the Lord GOD will put you to death, but his servants he will call by another name,</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God; whoever makes an oath in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God. For past problems will be forgotten; I will no longer think about them. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="btext2">so that he who blesses himself in the land shall bless himself by the God of truth, and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten and are hidden from my eyes.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext1">For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="btext2">“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext1">But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="btext2">But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy, and her people to be a gladness.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="btext2">I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in my people; no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of a hundred, anyone who fails to reach the age of a hundred will be considered cursed. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="btext2">No more shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days, for the young man shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext1">No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext1">They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the LORD will bless their children and their descendants. <td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="btext2">They shall not labor in vain or bear children for calamity, for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD, and their descendants with them.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext1">Before they even call out, I will respond; while they are still speaking, I will hear. <td width="50%" class="even" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="btext2">Before they call I will answer; while they are yet speaking I will hear.</span></td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="50%" class="odd" valign="top"><span class="reftext"><a href="/isaiah/65-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="btext1">A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake's food will be dirt. 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