Isaie 65

¹They have sought me that before asked not, they have found that sought me not, I said: Behold me, behold me, to a Gentility that did not invocate my name.

²I have spread forth mine hands all the day to an incredulous people, which goeth in a way not good after their own cogitations.

³A people that provoke me to anger before my face always: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

⁴That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in temples of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane potage in their vessels.

⁵That say: Depart from me, approach not to me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my fury, a fire burning all the day.

⁶Behold it is written before me: I will not hold my peace, but I will render and repay into their bosom

⁷your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith our Lord, that have sacrificed upon the mountains, and upon the little hills have reproached me, & I will remeasure their first work in their bosom.

⁸Thus saith our Lord: As if a berry be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I destroy not the whole.

⁹And I will bring forth seed out of Jacob, & out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: & mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall inhabit there.

¹⁰And the champion countries shall be into folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor for the couch of herds, unto my people that have sought after me.

¹¹And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table to Fortune, and offer libaments upon it.

¹²I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called, and you have not answered: I spake, and you have not heard, and you did evil in mine eyes: and you have chosen the things, that I would not.

¹³For this cause thus saith our Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.

¹⁴Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart: and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and for contrition of spirit you shall howl.

¹⁵And you shall leave your name for an oath to mine elect: and the Lord God shall kill thee, and will call his servants by another name.

¹⁶In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, Amen: & he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God Amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, & because they are hid from mine eyes.

¹⁷For behold I create new heavens, & a new earth: & the former things shall not be in memory, & they shall not ascend upon the heart.

¹⁸But you shall be glad & rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: because lo I create Jerusalem exultation, and the people thereof joy.

¹⁹And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be glad in my people, and there shall no more be heard in it the voice of weeping, and the voice of crying.

²⁰There shall no more be a child of days, & an old man that shall not fill up his days, because the child of an hundred years shall die, and the sinner of an hundred years shall be accurst.

²¹And they shall build cities, and inhabit: and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits thereof.

²²They shall not build, and another shall dwell: they shall not plant, & another shall eat: for according to the days of the tree, shall be the days of my people, and they shall make old the works of their hands.

²³Mine elect shall not labour in vain, nor engender in conturbation: because it is the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.

²⁴And it shall be, before they call, I will hear: as they are yet speaking, I will hear.

²⁵The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, the lion and the oxe shall eat straw: & to the serpent dust shall be his bread: they shall not hurt, nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith our Lord.