Isaiah 65 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Judgment and Salvation

Isa 65:1I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not called by[fn] my name.

Isa 65:2

Isa 65:2I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own devices;

Isa 65:3

Isa 65:3a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on bricks;

Isa 65:4

Isa 65:4who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in secret places;
who eat pig’s flesh,
and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

Isa 65:5

Isa 65:5who 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 the day.

Isa 65:6

Isa 65:6Behold, it is written before me:
“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their lap

Isa 65:7

Isa 65:7both your iniquities and your fathers’ iniquities together,
says the LORD;
because they made offerings on the mountains
and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former deeds.”[fn]

Isa 65:8

Isa 65:8Thus says the LORD:
“As the new 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.

Isa 65:9

Isa 65:9I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
and my servants shall dwell there.

Isa 65:10

Isa 65:10Sharon 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.

Isa 65:11

Isa 65:11But you who forsake the LORD,
who forget my holy mountain,
who set a table for Fortune
and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,

Isa 65:12

Isa 65:12I 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 eyes
and chose what I did not delight in.”

Isa 65:13

Isa 65:13Therefore thus says the Lord GOD:
“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;

Isa 65:14

Isa 65:14behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
but you shall cry out for pain of heart
and shall wail for breaking of spirit.

Isa 65:15

Isa 65:15You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse,
and the Lord GOD will put you to death,
but his servants he will call by another name,

Isa 65:16

Isa 65:16so that he who blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself by the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

Isa 65:17

Isa 65:17“For behold, I create new heavens
and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
or come into mind.

Isa 65:18

Isa 65:18But be glad and rejoice forever
in that which I create;
for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
and her people to be a gladness.

Isa 65:19

Isa 65:19I will rejoice in Jerusalem
and be glad in my people;
no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
and the cry of distress.

Isa 65:20

Isa 65:20No more shall there be in it
an infant who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.

Isa 65:21

Isa 65:21They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

Isa 65:22

Isa 65:22They 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[fn] the work of their hands.

Isa 65:23

Isa 65:23They shall not labor in vain
or bear children for calamity,[fn]
for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the LORD,
and their descendants with them.

Isa 65:24

Isa 65:24Before they call I will answer;
while they are yet speaking I will hear.

Isa 65:25

Isa 65:25The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
and dust shall be the serpent’s food.
They shall not hurt or destroy
in all my holy mountain,”
says the LORD.

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ESV Footnotes

(65:1)

Or that did not call upon

(65:7)

Or I will first measure their payment into their lap

(65:22)

Hebrew shall wear out

(65:23)

Or for sudden terror

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Isaiah 65 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Judgment and Salvation

New Heavens and a New Earth

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Isaiah Chapter 65 — Additional Translations:

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