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Isaiah 62-66
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
Isaiah 62-66
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition
The Vindication and Salvation of Zion
62 For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,
and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest,
until her vindication shines out like the dawn
and her salvation like a burning torch.(A)
2 The nations shall see your vindication
and all the kings your glory,
and you shall be called by a new name
that the mouth of the Lord will give.(B)
3 You shall be a beautiful crown in the hand of the Lord
and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.(C)
4 You shall no more be termed Forsaken,
and your land shall no more be termed Desolate,
but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her
and your land Married,
for the Lord delights in you,
and your land shall be married.(D)
5 For as a young man marries a young woman,
so shall your builder[a] marry you,
and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride,
so shall your God rejoice over you.(E)
6 Upon your walls, O Jerusalem,
I have posted sentinels;
all day and all night
they shall never be silent.
You who remind the Lord,
take no rest,(F)
7 and give him no rest
until he establishes Jerusalem
and makes it renowned throughout the earth.(G)
8 The Lord has sworn by his right hand
and by his mighty arm:
I will not again give your grain
to be food for your enemies,
and foreigners shall not drink the wine
for which you have labored,(H)
9 but those who harvest it shall eat it
and praise the Lord,
and those who gather it shall drink it
in my holy courts.(I)
10 Go through, go through the gates;
prepare the way for the people;
build up, build up the highway;
clear it of stones;
lift up an ensign over the peoples.(J)
11 The Lord has proclaimed
to the end of the earth:
Say to daughter Zion,
“Look, your savior comes;
his reward is with him
and his recompense before him.”(K)
12 They shall be called, “The Holy People,
The Redeemed of the Lord,”
and you shall be called, “Sought Out,
A City Not Forsaken.”(L)
Vengeance on Edom
63 “Who is this coming from Edom,
from Bozrah in garments stained crimson?
Who is this so splendidly robed,
marching in his great might?”
“It is I, announcing vindication,
mighty to save.”(M)
2 “Why are your robes red
and your garments like theirs who tread the winepress?”(N)
3 “I have trodden the winepress alone,
and from the peoples no one was with me;
I trod them in my anger
and trampled them in my wrath;
their juice spattered on my garments,
and I stained all my robes.(O)
4 For the day of vengeance was in my mind,
and the year for my redeeming work had come.(P)
5 I looked, but there was no helper;
I was abandoned, and there was no one to sustain me,
so my own arm brought me victory,
and my wrath sustained me.(Q)
6 I trampled down peoples in my anger;
I crushed them[b] in my wrath,
and I poured out their lifeblood on the earth.”(R)
God’s Mercy Remembered
7 I will recount the gracious deeds of the Lord,
the praiseworthy acts of the Lord,
because of all that the Lord has done for us
and the great favor to the house of Israel
that he has shown them according to his mercy,
according to the abundance of his steadfast love.(S)
8 For he said, “Surely they are my people,
children who will not act deceitfully,”
and he became their savior
9 in all their distress.
It was no messenger or angel
but his presence that saved them;
in his love and pity it was he who redeemed them;
he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.(T)
10 But they rebelled
and grieved his holy spirit;
therefore he became their enemy;
he himself fought against them.(U)
11 Then they[c] remembered the days of old,
of Moses his servant.[d]
Where is the one who brought them up out of the sea
with the shepherds of his flock?
Where is the one who put within them
his holy spirit,(V)
12 who caused his glorious arm
to march at the right hand of Moses,
who divided the waters before them
to make for himself an everlasting name,(W)
13 who led them through the depths?
Like a horse in the desert,
they did not stumble.(X)
14 Like cattle that go down into the valley,
the spirit of the Lord gave them rest.
Thus you led your people,
to make for yourself a glorious name.(Y)
A Prayer of Penitence
15 Look down from heaven and see,
from your holy and glorious habitation.
Where are your zeal and your might?
Your great pity and your compassion are withheld from me.(Z)
16 For you are our father,
though Abraham does not know us
and Israel does not acknowledge us;
you, O Lord, are our father;
our Redeemer from of old is your name.(AA)
17 Why, O Lord, do you let us stray from your ways
and let our heart harden, so that we do not fear you?
Turn back for the sake of your servants,
the tribes that are your heritage.(AB)
18 Your holy people took possession for a little while,
but now our adversaries have trampled down your sanctuary.(AC)
19 We have long been like those whom you do not rule,
like those not called by your name.(AD)
64 O that you would tear open the heavens and come down,
so that the mountains would quake at your presence—(AE)
2 [e]as when fire kindles brushwood
and the fire causes water to boil—
to make your name known to your adversaries,
so that the nations might tremble at your presence!(AF)
3 When you did awesome deeds that we did not expect,
you came down; the mountains quaked at your presence.(AG)
4 From ages past no one has heard,
no ear has perceived,
no eye has seen any God besides you,
who works for those who wait for him.(AH)
5 You meet those who gladly do right,
those who remember you in your ways.
But you were angry, and we sinned;
because you hid yourself we transgressed.[f](AI)
6 We have all become like one who is unclean,
and all our righteous deeds are like a filthy cloth.
We all fade like a leaf,
and our iniquities, like the wind, take us away.(AJ)
7 There is no one who calls on your name
or attempts to take hold of you,
for you have hidden your face from us
and have delivered[g] us into the hand of our iniquity.(AK)
8 Yet, O Lord, you are our Father;
we are the clay, and you are our potter;
we are all the work of your hand.(AL)
9 Do not be exceedingly angry, O Lord,
and do not remember iniquity forever.
Now consider, we are all your people.(AM)
10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;
Zion has become a wilderness,
Jerusalem a desolation.(AN)
11 Our holy and beautiful house,
where our ancestors praised you,
has been burned by fire,
and all our pleasant places have become ruins.(AO)
12 After all this, will you restrain yourself, O Lord?
Will you keep silent and punish us so severely?(AP)
The Righteousness of God’s Judgment
65 I was ready to be sought out by those who did not ask,
to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that did not call on my name.(AQ)
2 I held out my hands all day long
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;(AR)
3 a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens
and offering incense on bricks;(AS)
4 who sit inside tombs
and spend the night in secret places;
who eat the flesh of pigs,
with broth of abominable things in their vessels;(AT)
5 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 day long.(AU)
6 See, it is written before me:
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their laps(AV)
7 their[h] iniquities and their[i] ancestors’ iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they offered incense on the mountains
and reviled me on the hills,
I will measure into their laps
full payment for their actions.(AW)
8 Thus says the Lord:
As the 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.
9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob
and from Judah inheritors of my mountains;
my chosen shall inherit it,
and my servants shall settle there.(AX)
10 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.(AY)
11 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,(AZ)
12 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 sight
and chose what I did not delight in.(BA)
13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
My servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry;
my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty;
my servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be put to shame;(BB)
14 my servants shall sing with gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out in pain of heart
and shall wail in anguish of spirit.(BC)
15 You shall leave your name to my chosen to use as a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give a different name.(BD)
16 Then whoever invokes a blessing in the land
shall bless by the God of faithfulness,
and whoever takes an oath in the land
shall swear by the God of faithfulness,
because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my sight.(BE)
The Glorious New Creation
17 For I am about to create new heavens
and a new earth;
the former things shall not be remembered
or come to mind.(BF)
18 But be glad and rejoice forever
in what I am creating,
for I am about to create Jerusalem as a joy
and its people as a delight.(BG)
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and delight in my people;
no more shall the sound of weeping be heard in it
or the cry of distress.(BH)
20 No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days
or an old person who does not live out a lifetime,
for one who dies at a hundred years will be considered a youth,
and one who falls short of a hundred will be considered accursed.(BI)
21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(BJ)
22 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.(BK)
23 They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,[j]
for they shall be offspring blessed by the Lord—
and their descendants as well.(BL)
24 Before they call I will answer,
while they are yet speaking I will hear.(BM)
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
but the serpent—its food shall be dust!
They shall not hurt or destroy
on all my holy mountain,
says the Lord.(BN)
The Worship God Demands
66 Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is my throne,
and the earth is my footstool;
so what kind of house could you build for me,
what sort of place for me to rest?(BO)
2 All these things my hand has made,
so all these things are mine,[k]
says the Lord.
But this is the one to whom I will look,
to the humble and contrite in spirit
who trembles at my word.(BP)
3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who kills a human,
whoever sacrifices a lamb like one who breaks a dog’s neck,
whoever presents a grain offering like one who offers pig’s blood,
whoever makes a memorial offering of frankincense like one who blesses an idol.
Just as these have chosen their own ways
and in their abominations they take delight,(BQ)
4 so I will choose their punishments
and bring upon them what they fear,
because, when I called, no one answered,
when I spoke, they did not listen,
but they did what was evil in my sight
and chose what did not please me.(BR)
The Lord Vindicates Zion
5 Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at his word:
Your own people who hate you
and reject you for my name’s sake
have said, “Let the Lord be glorified,
so that we may see your joy,”
but it is they who shall be put to shame.(BS)
6 Listen, a roar from the city!
A voice from the temple!
The voice of the Lord,
dealing retribution to his enemies!(BT)
7 Before she was in labor
she gave birth;
before her pain came upon her
she delivered a son.(BU)
8 Who has heard of such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Shall a land be born in one day?
Shall a nation be delivered in one moment?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor
she delivered her children.(BV)
9 Shall I open the womb and not deliver?
says the Lord;
shall I, the one who delivers, shut the womb?
says your God.
10 Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her,
all you who love her;
rejoice with her in joy,
all you who mourn over her—(BW)
11 that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her consoling breast,
that you may drink deeply with delight
from her glorious bosom.(BX)
12 For thus says the Lord:
I will extend prosperity to her like a river
and the wealth of the nations like an overflowing stream,
and you shall nurse and be carried on her arm
and bounced on her knees.(BY)
13 As a mother comforts her child,
so I will comfort you;
you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.(BZ)
The Reign and Indignation of God
14 You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice;
your bodies[l] shall flourish like the grass,
and it shall be known that the power of the Lord is with his servants,
and his indignation is against his enemies.(CA)
15 For the Lord will come in fire
and his chariots in a whirlwind,[m]
to vent his anger in fury
and his rebuke in flames of fire.(CB)
16 For by fire will the Lord execute judgment,
and by his sword on all flesh;
and those slain by the Lord shall be many.(CC)
17 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 Lord,(CD) 18 for I know[n] their works and their thoughts.
I am[o] coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,(CE) 19 and I will set a sign among them. From them I will send survivors to the nations, to Tarshish, Put,[p] and Lud, to Meshech,[q] 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.(CF) 20 They shall bring all your kindred from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring a grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.(CG) 21 And I will also take some of them as priests and as Levites, says the Lord.(CH)
22 For as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make,
shall remain before me, says the Lord,
so shall your descendants and your name remain.(CI)
23 From new moon to new moon
and from Sabbath to Sabbath,
all flesh shall come to worship before me,
says the Lord.(CJ)
24 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.(CK)
Footnotes
- 62.5 Cn: Heb your sons
- 63.6 Heb mss: MT I made them drunk
- 63.11 Heb he
- 63.11 Cn: Heb his people
- 64.2 64.1 in Heb
- 64.5 Meaning of Heb uncertain
- 64.7 Gk Syr OL Tg: Heb melted
- 65.7 Gk Syr: Heb your
- 65.7 Gk Syr: Heb your
- 65.23 Or sudden terror
- 66.2 Gk Syr: Heb these things came to be
- 66.14 Heb bones
- 66.15 Q ms: MT like a whirlwind
- 66.18 Gk Syr: Heb lacks know
- 66.18 Gk Syr Vg Tg: Heb it is
- 66.19 Gk: Heb Pul
- 66.19 Gk: Heb those drawing the bow
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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