“I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me:1 I said, ‘Here I am, here I am,’ to a nation that was not called by my Name. 2All day long I have spread out my hands to a rebellious people,2 who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts; 3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; 4who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5who say, ‘Stand by yourself, do not come near 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, 7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” says YAHWEH,3 “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom.”
8Thus says YAHWEH, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so will I do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all. 9I will bring forth a seed out of Yaqub,4 and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. 10Sharon 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 YAHWEH, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; 12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not hear; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.”
13Therefore thus says the Lord YAHWEH, “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; 14behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for vexation of spirit. 15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen; and the Lord YAHWEH will kill you; and he will call his servants by another name: 16so 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;5 and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind. 18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there will be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
20“There will be no more an infant who lives only 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. 21They will build houses, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22They will not build and another inhabit; they will not plant and another eat: for as the days of a tree will be the days of my people, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. 23They will not labour in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of YAHWEH, and their offspring with them. 24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear. 25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says YAHWEH.
- 65:1 Quoted in the Injil, Romans 10:20 which says: Shaya is very bold, and says, “I was found by those who did not seek me. I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me.” ↩︎
- 65:2 Quoted in the Injil, Romans 10:21 which says: But as for Israel he says, “All day long I have spread out my hands to a disobedient and rebellious people.” ↩︎
- 65:7 YAHWEH, the name God revealed to Prophet Musa in the Taurat, Exodus 3:15 – God said moreover to Musa, “You shall tell Bani-Israel this, ‘YAHWEH, the God of your fathers, the God of Ibrahim, the God of Ishaq, and the God of Yaqub, has sent me to you.’ This is my Name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered to all generations.” ↩︎
- 65:9 Yaqub, or Jacob, derived from the Hebrew name Ya’akov. An alternative name for the people of Israel. ↩︎
- 65:17 Quoted in the Injil, 2 Peter 3:13 which says: But, according to his promise, we look for new heavens and a new earth, in which dwells righteousness. ↩︎