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Isaiah 65 :: Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:1 - I have been inquired of by those who asked not, I have been found by those who sought Me not, I have said, 'Behold Me, behold Me,' Unto a nation not calling in My name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:2 - I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:3 - The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:4 - Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:5 - Who are saying, 'Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These are a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:6 - Lo, it is written before Me: 'I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:7 - Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.'
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:8 - Thus said Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, And one hath said, 'Destroy it not for a blessing is in it,' So I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy the whole.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:9 - And I have brought out from Jacob a seed, And from Judah a possessor of My mount, And possess it do My chosen ones, And My servants do dwell there.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:10 - And Sharon hath been for the habitation of a flock, And the valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, For My people who have sought Me.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:11 - And ye are those forsaking Jehovah, Who are forgetting My holy mountain, Who are setting in array for Gad a table, And who are filling for Meni a mixture.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:12 - And I have numbered you for the sword, And all of you for slaughter bow down, Because I called, and ye have not answered, I have spoken, and ye have not hearkened, And ye do the evil thing in Mine eyes, And on that which I desired not -- fixed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:13 - Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, My servants do eat, and ye do hunger, Lo, My servants do drink, and ye do thirst, Lo, My servants rejoice, and ye are ashamed,
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:14 - Lo, My servants sing from joy of heart, And ye cry from pain of heart, And from breaking of spirit ye do howl.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:15 - And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:16 - So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, Doth bless himself In the God of faithfulness, And he who is swearing in the earth, Doth swear by the God of faithfulness, Because the former distresses have been forgotten, And because they have been hid from Mine eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:17 - For, lo, I am creating new heavens, and a new earth, And the former things are not remembered, Nor do they ascend on the heart.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:18 - But joy ye, and rejoice for ever, that I am Creator, For, lo, I am creating Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:19 - And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, And have joyed in My people, And not heard in her any more Is the voice of weeping, and the voice of crying.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - There is not thence any more a suckling of days, And an aged man who doth not complete his days, For the youth a hundred years old dieth, And the sinner, a hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:21 - And they have built houses, and inhabited, And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:22 - They do not build, and another inhabit, They do not plant, and another eat, For as the days of a tree are the days of My people, And the work of their hands wear out do My chosen ones.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They labour not for a vain thing, Nor do they bring forth for trouble, For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah are they, And their offspring with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:24 - And it hath come to pass, They do not yet call, and I answer, They are yet speaking, and I hear.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:25 - Wolf and lamb do feed as one, And a lion as an ox eateth straw, As to the serpent -- dust is its food, They do no evil, nor destroy, In all My holy mountain, said Jehovah!
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