Isaiah
65
This chapter has
application in Isaiah's time
And The Time of The
END.
I revealed myself to
those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those
who did not call on my name,
I said, 'Here am I,
here am I.'
(This speaks of the
Gentiles who come to Christ)
2 ALL DAY LONG
I HAVE HELD OUT MY
ANDS TO AN OBSTINATE PEOPLE,
(This speaks of Natural
Israel who forsook their God
And the rebellious
Church in The Time of the End.)
Who walk in ways not
good, pursuing their own imaginations--
3 A People who
continually provoke Me to My very Face.,
Offering sacrifices in
gardens
And burning incense on
altars of brick;
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;
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.
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--
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.'
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 WLL I DO IN
BEHALF OF MY SERVANTS;
I will not destroy them
all.
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.
10 Sharon will become a
pasture for flocks,
And the Valley of Achor
A RESTING PLACE FOR
MY PEOPLE WHO SEEK ME.
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,
12 I WILL DESTINE
YOU FOR THE SWORD,
AND YOU WILL ALL
BEND DOWN FOR THE SLAUGTER;
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.'
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.
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.
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.
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.
17 BEHOLD, I WILL
CREATE A NEW HEAVENS
AND A NEW EARTH.
THE FORMER THINGS
WILL NOT BE REMEMBERED,
NOR WILL THEY COME
TO MIND.
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.
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.
20 Never again will
there be in it an infant
That 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.
21 They will build
houses and dwell in them;
They will plant
vineyards and eat their fruit.
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.
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.
24 BEFORE THEY CALL
I WILL ANSWER;
While they are still
speaking I will hear.
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
In all my holy
mountain,'
Says the Lord.
(Isaiah 65)
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