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65 : 1 I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, `Here am I, here am I.`
65 : 2 All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations-
65 : 3 a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
65 : 4 who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of unclean meat;
65 : 5 who say, `Keep away; don`t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!` Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.
65 : 6 See, it stands written before me: I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps-
65 : 7 both your sins and the sins of your fathers," says the LORD. "Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds."
65 : 8 This is what the LORD says: "As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes and men say, `Don`t destroy it, there is yet some good in it,` so will I do in behalf of my servants; I will not destroy them all.
65 : 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah those who will possess my mountains; my chosen people will inherit them, and there will my servants live.
65 : 10 Sharon will become a pasture for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds, for my people who seek me.
65 : 11 But as for you who forsake the LORD and forget my holy mountain, who spread a table for Fortune and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,
65 : 12 I will destine you for the sword, and you will all bend down for the slaughter; for I called but you did not answer, I spoke but you did not listen. You did evil in my sight and chose what displeases me."
65 : 13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign LORD says: "My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; my servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; my servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
65 : 14 My servants will sing out of the joy of their hearts, but you will cry out from anguish of heart and wail in brokenness of spirit.
65 : 15 You will leave your name to my chosen ones as a curse; the Sovereign LORD will put you to death, but to his servants he will give another name.
65 : 16 Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth; he who takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the past troubles will be forgotten and hidden from my eyes.
65 : 17 Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
65 : 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I will create, for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight and its people a joy.
65 : 19 I will rejoice over Jerusalem and take delight in my people; the sound of weeping and of crying will be heard in it no more.
65 : 20 Never again will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who does not live out his years; he who dies at a hundred will be thought a mere youth; he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.
65 : 21 They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
65 : 22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them, or plant and others eat. For as the days of a tree, so will be the days of my people; my chosen ones will long enjoy the works of their hands.
65 : 23 They will not toil in vain or bear children doomed to misfortune; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD, they and their descendants with them.
65 : 24 Before they call I will answer; while they are still speaking I will hear.
65 : 25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but dust will be the serpent`s food. They will neither harm nor destroy on all my holy mountain," says the LORD.