Chapter 65.
I am sought of them that ask not for me.
I am found of them that sought me not.
I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in
a way that was not good, after their own thoughts.
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth
in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick, which remain among the
graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of
abominable things is in their vessels, which say, Stand by thyself, come not near
to me, for I am holier than thou.
These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.
Behold, it is written before me, I will not keep silence, but will
recompense, even recompense into their bosom, your iniquities and the iniquities
of your fathers together, saith the Lord, which have burned incense upon the
mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills.
Therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
Thus saith the Lord, as the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith,
Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants' sakes,
that I may not destroy them all.
And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my
mountains, and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achar a place for the
herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare
a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the
slaughter.
Because when I called, ye did not answer, when I spake, ye did not hear,
but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted
not.
Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shall eat,
but ye shall be hungry.
Behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty.
Behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed.
Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of
heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit.
And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen, for the Lord God shall
slay thee, and call his servants by another name.
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth,
and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth, because the
former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be
remembered, nor come into mind.
But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create.
For behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy,
and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of
weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled
his days.
For the child shall die an hundred years old, but the sinner being an hundred years
old shall be accursed.
And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and
eat the fruit of them.
They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat,
for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy
the work of their hands.
They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble, for they are
the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.
And it shall come to pass that before they call, I will answer, and while they are
yet speaking, I will hear.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the
bullock, and dust shall be the serpent's meat.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.