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Isaiah 62-66
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Isaiah 62-66
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Zion’s Restoration
62 I will not keep silent because of Zion,
and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,(A)
until her righteousness shines like a bright light(B)
and her salvation, like a flaming torch.
2 Nations will see your righteousness(C)
and all kings, your glory.
You will be called by a new name
that the Lord’s mouth will announce.(D)
3 You will be a glorious crown in the Lord’s hand,
and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.(E)
4 You will no longer be called Deserted,(F)
and your land will not be called Desolate;
instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,[a]
and your land Married;[b](G)
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land will be married.
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so your sons will marry you;
and as a groom rejoices[c] over his bride,
so your God will rejoice over you.(H)
6 Jerusalem,
I have appointed watchmen on your walls;(I)
they will never be silent, day or night.
There is no rest for you,
who remind the Lord.
7 Do not give Him rest
until He establishes and makes Jerusalem
the praise of the earth.(J)
8 The Lord has sworn with His right hand
and His strong arm:
I will no longer give your grain
to your enemies for food,(K)
and foreigners will not drink your new wine
you have labored for.
9 For those who gather grain will eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine
in My holy courts.
10 Go out, go out through the gates;
prepare a way for the people!
Build it up, build up the highway;(L)
clear away the stones!
Raise a banner for the peoples.(M)
11 Look, the Lord has proclaimed
to the ends of the earth,
“Say to Daughter Zion:(N)
Look, your salvation is coming,
His reward is with Him,(O)
and His gifts accompany Him.”
12 And they will be called[d] the Holy People,(P)
the Lord’s Redeemed;
and you will be called Cared For,
A City Not Deserted.
The Lord’s Day of Vengeance
63 Who is this coming from Edom(Q)
in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah—
this One who is splendid in His apparel,
rising up proudly[e] in His great might?
It is I, proclaiming vindication,[f]
powerful to save.
2 Why are Your clothes red,
and Your garments like one who treads a winepress?(R)
3 I trampled the winepress alone,
and no one from the nations was with Me.
I trampled them in My anger
and ground them underfoot in My fury;
their blood spattered My garments,
and all My clothes were stained.
4 For I planned the day of vengeance,[g](S)
and the year of My redemption[h] came.
5 I looked, but there was no one to help,(T)
and I was amazed that no one assisted;
so My arm accomplished victory for Me,
and My wrath assisted Me.
6 I crushed nations in My anger;
I made them drunk with My wrath(U)
and poured out their blood on the ground.(V)
Remembrance of Grace
7 I will make known the Lord’s faithful love
and the Lord’s praiseworthy acts,
because of all the Lord has done for us—
even the many good things
He has done for the house of Israel
and has done for them based on His compassion
and the abundance of His faithful love.
8 He said, “They are indeed My people,
children who will not be disloyal,”
and He became their Savior.
9 In all their suffering, He suffered,[i](W)
and the Angel of His Presence saved them.
He redeemed them
because of His love and compassion;(X)
He lifted them up and carried them
all the days of the past.(Y)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved His Holy Spirit.(Z)
So He became their enemy
and fought against them.
11 Then He[j] remembered the days of the past,
the days of Moses and his people.
Where is He who brought them out of the sea
with the shepherds[k] of His flock?
Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?
12 He sent His glorious arm
to be at Moses’ right hand,
divided the waters before them(AA)
to obtain eternal fame for Himself,
13 and led them through the depths
like a horse in the wilderness,
so that they did not stumble.
14 Like cattle that go down into the valley,
the Spirit of the Lord gave them[l] rest.
You led Your people this way
to make a glorious name for Yourself.
Israel’s Prayer
15 Look down from heaven and see(AB)
from Your lofty home—holy and beautiful.
Where is Your zeal and Your might?
Your yearning[m] and Your compassion
are withheld from me.
16 Yet You are our Father,
even though Abraham does not know us
and Israel doesn’t recognize us.
You, Yahweh, are our Father;
from ancient times,
Your name is our Redeemer.(AC)
17 Why, Yahweh, do You make us stray from Your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear[n] You.(AD)
Return, because of Your servants,
the tribes of Your heritage.
18 Your holy people had a possession[o]
for a little while,
but our enemies have trampled down
Your sanctuary.(AE)
19 We have become like those You never ruled over,
like those not called by Your name.(AF)
64 [p]If only You would tear the heavens open
and come down,(AG)
so that mountains would quake at Your presence(AH)—
2 [q]as fire kindles the brushwood,
and fire causes water to boil—
to make Your name known to Your enemies,
so that nations will tremble at Your presence!
3 When You did awesome works(AI)
that we did not expect,
You came down,(AJ)
and the mountains quaked at Your presence.
4 From ancient times no one has heard,
no one has listened,
no eye has seen any God except You,
who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.(AK)
5 You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;
they remember You in Your ways.
But we have sinned, and You were angry.
How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?[r]
6 All of us have become like something unclean,
and all our righteous acts are like a polluted[s] garment;(AL)
all of us wither like a leaf,(AM)
and our iniquities(AN) carry us away like the wind.
7 No one calls on Your name,
striving to take hold of You.
For You have hidden Your face from us(AO)
and made us melt because of[t][u] our iniquity.
8 Yet Lord, You are our Father;(AP)
we are the clay, and You are our potter;
we all are the work of Your hands.(AQ)
9 Lord, do not be terribly angry
or remember our iniquity forever.(AR)
Please look—all of us are Your people!
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(AS)
11 Our holy and beautiful[v] temple,
where our fathers praised You,
has been burned with fire,
and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.(AT)
12 Lord, after all this, will You restrain Yourself?
Will You keep silent and afflict severely?(AU)
The Lord’s Response
65 “I was sought by those who did not ask;[w]
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said: Here I am, here I am,
to a nation that was not called by[x] My name.(AV)
2 I spread out My hands all day long
to a rebellious people(AW)
who walk in the wrong path,
following their own thoughts.
3 These people continually provoke Me
to My face,
sacrificing in gardens,(AX)
burning incense on bricks,
4 sitting among the graves,
spending nights in secret places,
eating the meat of pigs,(AY)
and putting polluted broth in their bowls.[y]
5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself,
don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you!’
These practices are smoke in My nostrils,
a fire that burns all day long.
6 It is written before Me:
I will not keep silent,(AZ) but I will repay;(BA)
I will repay them fully[z]
7 for your iniquities and the iniquities(BB)
of your[aa] fathers together,”
says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and reproached Me on the hills,(BC)
I will reward them fully[ab]
for their former deeds.”
8 The Lord says this:
As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,
for there’s some good[ac] in it,’
so I will act because of My servants
and not destroy them all.
9 I will produce descendants from Jacob,(BD)
and heirs to My mountains from Judah;
My chosen(BE) ones will possess it,
and My servants will dwell there.(BF)
10 Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,(BG)
and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie down,(BH)
for My people who have sought Me.(BI)
11 But you who abandon the Lord,
who forget My holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,[ad]
12 I will destine you for the sword,
and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,
because I called and you did not answer,
I spoke and you did not hear;
you did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I did not delight in.(BJ)
13 Therefore, this is what the Lord God says:
My servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
My servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty;
My servants will rejoice,
but you will be put to shame.
14 My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,
but you will cry out from an anguished heart,
and you will lament out of a broken spirit.
15 You will leave your name behind
as a curse for My chosen ones,(BK)
and the Lord God will kill you;
but He will give His servants another name.(BL)
16 Whoever is blessed in the land
will be blessed by the God of truth,(BM)
and whoever swears in the land
will swear by the God of truth.
For the former troubles will be forgotten
and hidden from My sight.
A New Creation
17 “For I will create a new heaven and a new earth;(BN)
the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.
18 Then be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating;
for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy
and its people to be a delight.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in My people.
The sound of weeping and crying
will no longer be heard in her.(BO)
20 In her, a nursing infant will no longer live
only a few days,[ae]
or an old man not live out his days.
Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,
and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.(BP)
21 People will build houses and live in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(BQ)
22 They will not build and others live in them;
they will not plant and others eat.
For My people’s lives will be
like the lifetime of a tree.(BR)
My chosen ones will fully enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor without success(BS)
or bear children destined for disaster,
for they will be a people blessed by the Lord
along with their descendants.(BT)
24 Even before they call, I will answer;(BU)
while they are still speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,[af]
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(BV)
but the serpent’s food will be dust!(BW)
They will not do what is evil or destroy
on My entire holy mountain,”(BX)
says the Lord.
Final Judgment and Joyous Restoration
66 This is what the Lord says:
Heaven(BY) is My throne,(BZ)
and earth is My footstool.(CA)
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home?(CB)
2 My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble,(CC) submissive[ag] in spirit,(CD)
and trembles at My word.
3 One slaughters an ox, one kills a man;
one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;
one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;
one offers incense, one praises an idol—
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their detestable practices.(CE)
4 So I will choose their punishment,
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they didn’t hear;
they did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I didn’t delight in.(CF)
5 You who tremble at His word,(CG)
hear the word of the Lord:(CH)
“Your brothers who hate and exclude you
because of Me have said,(CI)
‘Let the Lord be glorified
so that we can see your joy!’
But they will be put to shame.”(CJ)
6 A sound of uproar from the city!
A voice from the temple—
the voice of the Lord,
paying back His enemies what they deserve!(CK)
7 Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
8 Who has heard of such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day
or a nation be delivered in an instant?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her sons.
9 “Will I bring a baby to the point of birth
and not deliver it?”
says the Lord;
“or will I who deliver, close the womb?”
says your God.
10 Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
all who love her.(CL)
Rejoice greatly with her,
all who mourn over her—
11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.
12 For this is what the Lord says:
I will make peace flow to her like a river,(CM)
and the wealth[ah] of nations like a flood;(CN)
you will nurse and be carried on her hip(CO)
and bounced on her lap.
13 As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you,(CP)
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
14 You will see, you will rejoice,
and you[ai] will flourish like grass;(CQ)
then the Lord’s power will be revealed to His servants,
but He will show His wrath against His enemies.
15 Look, the Lord will come with fire(CR)—
His chariots are like the whirlwind(CS)—
to execute His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16 For the Lord will execute judgment
on all flesh(CT) with His fiery sword,
and many will be slain by the Lord.
17 “Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves(CU) following their leader,[aj] eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
18 “Knowing[ak] their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages;(CV) they will come and see My glory. 19 I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put,[al] Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan,(CW) and the islands far away—who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. And they will proclaim My glory among the nations.(CX) 20 They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,”(CY) says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21 I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,”(CZ) says the Lord.
22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth,(DA)
which I will make,
will endure before Me”—
this is the Lord’s declaration—
“so your offspring and your name will endure.
23 All mankind will come to worship Me
from one New Moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,”
says the Lord.
24 “As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me;(DB) for their worm(DC) will never die, their fire will never go out,(DD) and they will be a horror to all mankind.”(DE)
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:4 Or Hephzibah
- Isaiah 62:4 Or Beulah
- Isaiah 62:5 Lit and the rejoicing of the groom
- Isaiah 62:12 Lit will call them
- Isaiah 63:1 Syr, Vg read apparel, striding forward
- Isaiah 63:1 Or righteousness
- Isaiah 63:4 Lit For day of vengeance in My heart
- Isaiah 63:4 Or blood revenge
- Isaiah 63:9 Alt Hb tradition reads did not suffer
- Isaiah 63:11 Or he, or they
- Isaiah 63:11 LXX, Tg, Syr read shepherd
- Isaiah 63:14 Lit him
- Isaiah 63:15 Lit The agitation of Your inward parts
- Isaiah 63:17 Lit our heart from fearing
- Isaiah 63:18 Or Your people possessed Your holy place
- Isaiah 64:1 Is 63:19b in Hb
- Isaiah 64:2 Is 64:1 in Hb
- Isaiah 64:5 Lit angry; in them continually and we will be saved; Hb obscure
- Isaiah 64:6 Lit menstrual
- Isaiah 64:7 LXX, Syr, Vg, Tg read and delivered us into the hand of
- Isaiah 64:7 Lit melt by the hand
- Isaiah 64:11 Or glorious; Is 60:7
- Isaiah 65:1 LXX, Syr, DSS, Tg read ask for Me
- Isaiah 65:1 LXX, Syr, DSS, Tg, Vg read that did not call on
- Isaiah 65:4 These vv. describe pagan worship.
- Isaiah 65:6 Lit repay into their lap
- Isaiah 65:7 LXX, Syr read [for] their iniquities and the iniquities of their
- Isaiah 65:7 Lit reward into their lap
- Isaiah 65:8 Or there’s a blessing
- Isaiah 65:11 Pagan gods
- Isaiah 65:20 Lit her, no longer infant of days
- Isaiah 65:25 Lit as one
- Isaiah 66:2 Lit broken
- Isaiah 66:12 Or glory
- Isaiah 66:14 Lit your bones
- Isaiah 66:17 Hb obscure
- Isaiah 66:18 LXX, Syr; MT omits Knowing
- Isaiah 66:19 LXX; MT reads Pul
Isaiah 62-66
New International Version
Isaiah 62-66
New International Version
Zion’s New Name
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,(A)
for Jerusalem’s sake I will not remain quiet,
till her vindication(B) shines out like the dawn,(C)
her salvation(D) like a blazing torch.
2 The nations(E) will see your vindication,
and all kings your glory;
you will be called by a new name(F)
that the mouth of the Lord will bestow.
3 You will be a crown(G) of splendor in the Lord’s hand,
a royal diadem in the hand of your God.
4 No longer will they call you Deserted,(H)
or name your land Desolate.(I)
But you will be called Hephzibah,[a](J)
and your land Beulah[b];
for the Lord will take delight(K) in you,
and your land will be married.(L)
5 As a young man marries a young woman,
so will your Builder marry you;
as a bridegroom(M) rejoices over his bride,
so will your God rejoice(N) over you.
6 I have posted watchmen(O) on your walls, Jerusalem;
they will never be silent day or night.
You who call on the Lord,
give yourselves no rest,(P)
7 and give him no rest(Q) till he establishes Jerusalem
and makes her the praise(R) of the earth.
8 The Lord has sworn(S) by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
“Never again will I give your grain(T)
as food for your enemies,
and never again will foreigners drink the new wine
for which you have toiled;
9 but those who harvest it will eat(U) it
and praise the Lord,(V)
and those who gather the grapes will drink it
in the courts of my sanctuary.”(W)
10 Pass through, pass through the gates!(X)
Prepare the way for the people.
Build up, build up the highway!(Y)
Remove the stones.
Raise a banner(Z) for the nations.
11 The Lord has made proclamation
to the ends of the earth:(AA)
“Say to Daughter Zion,(AB)
‘See, your Savior comes!(AC)
See, his reward is with him,
and his recompense accompanies him.’”(AD)
12 They will be called(AE) the Holy People,(AF)
the Redeemed(AG) of the Lord;
and you will be called Sought After,
the City No Longer Deserted.(AH)
God’s Day of Vengeance and Redemption
63 Who is this coming from Edom,(AI)
from Bozrah,(AJ) with his garments stained crimson?(AK)
Who is this, robed in splendor,
striding forward in the greatness of his strength?(AL)
“It is I, proclaiming victory,
mighty to save.”(AM)
2 Why are your garments red,
like those of one treading the winepress?(AN)
3 “I have trodden the winepress(AO) alone;
from the nations no one was with me.
I trampled(AP) them in my anger
and trod them down in my wrath;(AQ)
their blood spattered my garments,(AR)
and I stained all my clothing.
4 It was for me the day of vengeance;(AS)
the year for me to redeem had come.
5 I looked, but there was no one(AT) to help,
I was appalled that no one gave support;
so my own arm(AU) achieved salvation for me,
and my own wrath sustained me.(AV)
6 I trampled(AW) the nations in my anger;
in my wrath I made them drunk(AX)
and poured their blood(AY) on the ground.”
Praise and Prayer
7 I will tell of the kindnesses(AZ) of the Lord,
the deeds for which he is to be praised,
according to all the Lord has done for us—
yes, the many good things(BA)
he has done for Israel,
according to his compassion(BB) and many kindnesses.
8 He said, “Surely they are my people,(BC)
children who will be true to me”;
and so he became their Savior.(BD)
9 In all their distress he too was distressed,
and the angel(BE) of his presence(BF) saved them.[c]
In his love and mercy he redeemed(BG) them;
he lifted them up and carried(BH) them
all the days of old.(BI)
10 Yet they rebelled(BJ)
and grieved his Holy Spirit.(BK)
So he turned and became their enemy(BL)
and he himself fought(BM) against them.
11 Then his people recalled[d] the days of old,
the days of Moses and his people—
where is he who brought them through the sea,(BN)
with the shepherd of his flock?(BO)
Where is he who set
his Holy Spirit(BP) among them,
12 who sent his glorious arm(BQ) of power
to be at Moses’ right hand,
who divided the waters(BR) before them,
to gain for himself everlasting renown,(BS)
13 who led(BT) them through the depths?(BU)
Like a horse in open country,
they did not stumble;(BV)
14 like cattle that go down to the plain,
they were given rest(BW) by the Spirit of the Lord.
This is how you guided your people
to make for yourself a glorious name.
15 Look down from heaven(BX) and see,
from your lofty throne,(BY) holy and glorious.
Where are your zeal(BZ) and your might?
Your tenderness and compassion(CA) are withheld(CB) from us.
16 But you are our Father,(CC)
though Abraham does not know us
or Israel acknowledge(CD) us;
you, Lord, are our Father,
our Redeemer(CE) from of old is your name.
17 Why, Lord, do you make us wander(CF) from your ways
and harden our hearts(CG) so we do not revere(CH) you?
Return(CI) for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your inheritance.(CJ)
18 For a little while(CK) your people possessed your holy place,
but now our enemies have trampled(CL) down your sanctuary.(CM)
19 We are yours from of old;
but you have not ruled over them,
they have not been called[e] by your name.(CN)
64 [f]Oh, that you would rend the heavens(CO) and come down,(CP)
that the mountains(CQ) would tremble before you!
2 As when fire sets twigs ablaze
and causes water to boil,
come down to make your name(CR) known to your enemies
and cause the nations to quake(CS) before you!
3 For when you did awesome(CT) things that we did not expect,
you came down, and the mountains trembled(CU) before you.
4 Since ancient times no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,(CV)
who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.(CW)
5 You come to the help of those who gladly do right,(CX)
who remember your ways.
But when we continued to sin against them,
you were angry.(CY)
How then can we be saved?
6 All of us have become like one who is unclean,(CZ)
and all our righteous(DA) acts are like filthy rags;
we all shrivel up like a leaf,(DB)
and like the wind our sins sweep us away.(DC)
7 No one(DD) calls on your name(DE)
or strives to lay hold of you;
for you have hidden(DF) your face from us
and have given us over(DG) to[g] our sins.
8 Yet you, Lord, are our Father.(DH)
We are the clay, you are the potter;(DI)
we are all the work of your hand.(DJ)
9 Do not be angry(DK) beyond measure, Lord;
do not remember our sins(DL) forever.
Oh, look on us, we pray,
for we are all your people.(DM)
10 Your sacred cities(DN) have become a wasteland;
even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.(DO)
11 Our holy and glorious temple,(DP) where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned with fire,
and all that we treasured(DQ) lies in ruins.
12 After all this, Lord, will you hold yourself back?(DR)
Will you keep silent(DS) and punish us beyond measure?
Judgment and Salvation
65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.(DT)
To a nation(DU) that did not call on my name,(DV)
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,(DW)
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations(DX)—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,(DY)
offering sacrifices in gardens(DZ)
and burning incense(EA) on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves(EB)
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(EC)
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred(ED) for you!’
Such people are smoke(EE) in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.
6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent(EF) but will pay back(EG) in full;
I will pay it back into their laps(EH)—
7 both your sins(EI) and the sins of your ancestors,”(EJ)
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,(EK)
I will measure into their laps
the full payment(EL) for their former deeds.”
8 This is what the Lord says:
“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(EM)
and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(EN)
I will not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants(EO) from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess(EP) my mountains;
my chosen(EQ) people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.(ER)
10 Sharon(ES) will become a pasture for flocks,(ET)
and the Valley of Achor(EU) a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek(EV) me.
11 “But as for you who forsake(EW) the Lord
and forget my holy mountain,(EX)
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine(EY) for Destiny,
12 I will destine you for the sword,(EZ)
and all of you will fall in the slaughter;(FA)
for I called but you did not answer,(FB)
I spoke but you did not listen.(FC)
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(FD)
13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:
“My servants will eat,(FE)
but you will go hungry;(FF)
my servants will drink,(FG)
but you will go thirsty;(FH)
my servants will rejoice,(FI)
but you will be put to shame.(FJ)
14 My servants will sing(FK)
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(FL)
from anguish of heart
and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(FM)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.(FN)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(FO) in the land
will do so by the one true God;(FP)
whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear(FQ) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(FR) will be forgotten
and hidden from my eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth
17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.(FS)
The former things will not be remembered,(FT)
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(FU) forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(FV) to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(FW) over Jerusalem
and take delight(FX) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(FY)
will be heard in it no more.
20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant(FZ) who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;(GA)
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[h] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(GB) and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(GC)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(GD)
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(GE)
so will be the days(GF) of my people;
my chosen(GG) ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,(GH)
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(GI)
for they will be a people blessed(GJ) by the Lord,
they and their descendants(GK) with them.
24 Before they call(GL) I will answer;(GM)
while they are still speaking(GN) I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb(GO) will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(GP)
and dust will be the serpent’s(GQ) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”(GR)
says the Lord.
Judgment and Hope
66 This is what the Lord says:
“Heaven is my throne,(GS)
and the earth is my footstool.(GT)
Where is the house(GU) you will build for me?
Where will my resting place be?
2 Has not my hand made all these things,(GV)
and so they came into being?”
declares the Lord.
“These are the ones I look on with favor:
those who are humble and contrite in spirit,(GW)
and who tremble at my word.(GX)
3 But whoever sacrifices a bull(GY)
is like one who kills a person,
and whoever offers a lamb
is like one who breaks a dog’s neck;
whoever makes a grain offering
is like one who presents pig’s(GZ) blood,
and whoever burns memorial incense(HA)
is like one who worships an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,(HB)
and they delight in their abominations;(HC)
4 so I also will choose harsh treatment for them
and will bring on them what they dread.(HD)
For when I called, no one answered,(HE)
when I spoke, no one listened.
They did evil(HF) in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(HG)
5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at his word:(HH)
“Your own people who hate(HI) you,
and exclude you because of my name, have said,
‘Let the Lord be glorified,
that we may see your joy!’
Yet they will be put to shame.(HJ)
6 Hear that uproar from the city,
hear that noise from the temple!
It is the sound(HK) of the Lord
repaying(HL) his enemies all they deserve.
7 “Before she goes into labor,(HM)
she gives birth;
before the pains come upon her,
she delivers a son.(HN)
8 Who has ever heard of such things?
Who has ever seen(HO) things like this?
Can a country be born in a day(HP)
or a nation be brought forth in a moment?
Yet no sooner is Zion in labor
than she gives birth to her children.(HQ)
9 Do I bring to the moment of birth(HR)
and not give delivery?” says the Lord.
“Do I close up the womb
when I bring to delivery?” says your God.
10 “Rejoice(HS) with Jerusalem and be glad for her,
all you who love(HT) her;
rejoice greatly with her,
all you who mourn(HU) over her.
11 For you will nurse(HV) and be satisfied
at her comforting breasts;(HW)
you will drink deeply
and delight in her overflowing abundance.”(HX)
12 For this is what the Lord says:
“I will extend peace(HY) to her like a river,(HZ)
and the wealth(IA) of nations like a flooding stream;
you will nurse and be carried(IB) on her arm
and dandled on her knees.
13 As a mother comforts her child,(IC)
so will I comfort(ID) you;
and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.”
14 When you see this, your heart will rejoice(IE)
and you will flourish(IF) like grass;
the hand(IG) of the Lord will be made known to his servants,(IH)
but his fury(II) will be shown to his foes.
15 See, the Lord is coming with fire,(IJ)
and his chariots(IK) are like a whirlwind;(IL)
he will bring down his anger with fury,
and his rebuke(IM) with flames of fire.
16 For with fire(IN) and with his sword(IO)
the Lord will execute judgment(IP) on all people,
and many will be those slain(IQ) by the Lord.
17 “Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens,(IR) following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs,(IS) rats(IT) and other unclean things—they will meet their end(IU) together with the one they follow,” declares the Lord.
18 “And I, because of what they have planned and done,(IV) am about to come[i] and gather the people of all nations(IW) and languages, and they will come and see my glory.(IX)
19 “I will set a sign(IY) among them, and I will send some of those who survive(IZ) to the nations—to Tarshish,(JA) to the Libyans[j] and Lydians(JB) (famous as archers), to Tubal(JC) and Greece,(JD) and to the distant islands(JE) that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory.(JF) They will proclaim my glory among the nations. 20 And they will bring(JG) all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain(JH) in Jerusalem as an offering to the Lord—on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,”(JI) says the Lord. “They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the Lord in ceremonially clean vessels.(JJ) 21 And I will select some of them also to be priests(JK) and Levites,” says the Lord.
22 “As the new heavens and the new earth(JL) that I make will endure before me,” declares the Lord, “so will your name and descendants endure.(JM) 23 From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath(JN) to another, all mankind will come and bow down(JO) before me,” says the Lord. 24 “And they will go out and look on the dead bodies(JP) of those who rebelled(JQ) against me; the worms(JR) that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched,(JS) and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”
Footnotes
- Isaiah 62:4 Hephzibah means my delight is in her.
- Isaiah 62:4 Beulah means married.
- Isaiah 63:9 Or Savior 9 in their distress. / It was no envoy or angel / but his own presence that saved them
- Isaiah 63:11 Or But may he recall
- Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called
- Isaiah 64:1 In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.
- Isaiah 64:7 Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew have made us melt because of
- Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches
- Isaiah 66:18 The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
- Isaiah 66:19 Some Septuagint manuscripts Put (Libyans); Hebrew Pul
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