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1 “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.
2 I
have spread out
my hands all
day to a
rebellious people,
who walk in
a way that
is not good,
after their own
thoughts;
3 a
people who provoke
me to my
face continually,
sacrificing in
gardens,
and burning
incense on bricks;
4 who
sit among the
graves,
and spend nights
in secret places;
who eat pig’s
meat,
and broth of
abominable things
is in their
vessels;
5 who say, ‘Stay
by yourself,
don’t come near
to me,
for I am holier
than you.’
These are smoke
in my nose,
a fire that burns
all day.
6 “Behold,
it is written
before me:
I will not
keep silence,
but will repay,
yes, I will
repay into their
bosom
7 your own
iniquities and the
iniquities of
your fathers together”, says
the LORD,
“who have burned
incense on the
mountains,
and blasphemed me
on the hills.
Therefore I will
first measure
their work into
their bosom.”
8 The
LORD says,
“As the new
wine is found
in the cluster,
and one says,
‘Don’t destroy it,
for a blessing
is in it:’
so I will
do for my
servants’ sake,
that I may
not destroy them
all.
9 I
will bring
offspring out of
Jacob,
and out of
Judah an inheritor
of my mountains.
My chosen will
inherit it,
and my servants
will dwell there.
10 Sharon
will 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.
11 “But
you who forsake
the LORD,
who forget my
holy mountain,
who prepare a
table for Fortune,
and who fill
up mixed wine
to Destiny;
12 I
will destine you
to the sword,
and you will
all bow down
to the slaughter;
because when I
called, you didn’t
answer.
When I spoke,
you didn’t listen;
but you did
that which was
evil in my
eyes,
and chose that
in which I didn’t
delight.”
13 Therefore
the Lord GOD
says,
“Behold, my
servants will eat,
but you will
be hungry;
behold, my
servants will
drink,
but you will
be thirsty.
Behold, my
servants will
rejoice,
but you will
be disappointed.
14 Behold,
my servants will
sing for joy
of heart,
but you will
cry for sorrow
of heart,
and will wail
for anguish of
spirit.
15 You
will leave your
name for a
curse to my chosen,
and the Lord
GOD will kill
you.
He will call
his servants
by another name,
16 so
that he who
blesses himself in
the earth will
bless himself in
the God of truth;
and he who
swears in the earth
will swear by
the God of truth;
because the
former troubles
are forgotten,
and because they
are hidden from
my eyes.
17 “For,
behold, I create
new heavens and
a new earth;
and the former
things will not
be remembered,
nor come into
mind.
18 But
be glad and
rejoice forever in
that which I
create;
for, behold, I
create Jerusalem
to be a
delight,
and her people
a joy.
19 I
will rejoice in
Jerusalem,
and delight in
my people;
and the voice
of weeping and
the voice of
crying
will be heard
in her no
more.
20 “No
more will there
be an infant
who only lives
a few days,
nor an old
man who has
not filled his
days;
for the child
will die one
hundred years old,
and the sinner
being one hundred
years old will
be accursed.
21 They will
build houses and
inhabit them.
They will plant
vineyards and eat
their fruit.
22 They
will not build
and another
inhabit.
They will not
plant and
another eat;
for the days
of my people
will be like
the days of
a tree,
and my chosen
will long enjoy
the work of
their hands.
23 They
will not labor
in vain
nor give birth
for calamity;
for they are
the offspring of
the LORD’s blessed
and their
descendants with
them.
24 It
will happen that
before they call,
I will answer;
and while they
are yet speaking,
I will hear.
25 The
wolf and the
lamb will
feed together.
The lion will eat
straw like the
ox.
Dust will be
the serpent’s food.
They will not
hurt nor destroy
in all my
holy mountain,”
says the LORD.