Jubilee2000 - Isaiah - 65

65:1  I was sought of [those that] did not ask [for me]; I was found of [those that] did not seek me; I said, Here I am, Here I am, unto a people [that] did not invoke my name.

65:2  I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, who walk in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts;

65:3  a people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;

65:4  who remain [asleep] among the graves, and lodge in the deserts, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable [things is in] their vessels;

65:5  who say, Stand by thyself, do not come near to me; for I am holier than thou. These [are] a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

65:6  Behold, [it is] written before me: I will not keep silence but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

65:7  For your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, who have burned incense upon the mountains and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore, I will measure their former work into their bosom.

65:8  Thus has the LORD said, As when [one] has found new wine in a cluster and says, Do not destroy it; for a blessing [is] in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

65:9  And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my elect shall possess the land for an inheritance, and my servants shall dwell there.

65:10  And Sharon shall be for a fold of flocks and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

65:11  But ye that forsake the LORD, that forget the mountain of my holiness, that prepare a table unto fortune, and that furnish the drink offering for destiny;

65:12  I also will destine you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter because when I called, ye did not respond; I spoke, and ye did not hear, but did evil before my eyes and did choose that which displeased [me].

65:13  Therefore thus has the Lord GOD said, 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:

65:14  Behold, my servants shall rejoice by the joy of [their] heart, but ye shall cry for the sorrow of [your] heart and shall howl for the destruction of spirit.

65:15  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.

65:16  He who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth because the former troubles shall be forgotten and shall be covered from my eyes.

65:17  For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

65:18  But ye shall be glad and rejoice from age to age in the things which I shall create; for, behold, I create joy unto Jerusalem and unto her people joy.

65:19  And I will be glad with Jerusalem and rejoice with my people: and the voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

65:20  There shall no longer be there an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days for the child shall die one hundred years old; and he who sins at one hundred years of age shall be accursed.

65:21  And they shall build houses and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.

65:22  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of the trees shall be the days of my people, and my elect shall perpetuate the work of their hands.

65:23  They shall not labour in vain, nor give birth with fear; for their [births] are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring shall be with them.

65:24  And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

65:25  The wolf and the lamb shall be fed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust [shall be] the serpent's food. They shall not afflict nor do evil in all my holy mountain, said the LORD.: