Chapter 65

  I am inquired of by those who didn't ask; I am found by those who didn't seek me: I said, See me, see me, to a nation that was not called by my name.  

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  I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;  

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  a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;  

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  who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;  

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  who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.  

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  Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense into their bosom,  

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  your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.  

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  Thus says Yahweh, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.  

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  I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.  

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

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  But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mingled wine to Destiny;  

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  I will destine you to the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn't delight.  

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  Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, 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;  

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  behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.  

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  You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name:  

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  so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.  

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

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  But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.  

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  I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.  

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  There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old shall be accursed.  

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  They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.  

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  They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  

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  They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their offspring with them.  

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  It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.  

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  The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahweh.  

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