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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch64" data-usfm="ISA.64">
         <div class="label">64</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="ft">  </span><span class="ft">In Hebrew texts 64:1 is numbered 63:19b, and 64:2-12 is numbered 64:1-11.</span><span class="ft">  </span></span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">Oh, that you would rend the heavens and come down,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">that the mountains would tremble before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.64.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">As when fire sets twigs ablaze</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and causes water to boil,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">come down to make your name known to your enemies</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">and cause the nations to quake before you!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.64.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">For when you did awesome things that we did not expect,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">you came down, and the mountains trembled before you.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.64.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Since ancient times no one has heard,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no ear has perceived,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">no eye has seen any God besides you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">who acts on behalf of those who wait for him.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.64.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">You come to the help of those who gladly do right,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">who remember your ways.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">But when we continued to sin against them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">you were angry.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">How then can we be saved?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.64.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">All of us have become like one who is unclean,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">we all shrivel up like a leaf,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">and like the wind our sins sweep us away.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.64.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">No one calls on your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">or strives to lay hold of you;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">for you have hidden your face from us</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">and have given us over to</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">64:7 </span><span class="ft">Septuagint, Syriac and Targum; Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">have made us melt because of</span></span></span><span class="content"> our sins.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.64.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Yet you, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, are our Father.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">We are the clay, you are the potter;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">we are all the work of your hand.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.64.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do not be angry beyond measure, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">do not remember our sins forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">Oh, look on us, we pray,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">for we are all your people.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.64.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Your sacred cities have become a wasteland;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.64.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">has been burned with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">and all that we treasured lies in ruins.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.64.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">After all this, </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, will you hold yourself back?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.64.12"><span class="content">Will you keep silent and punish us beyond measure?</span></span></div>
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   <div class="book bkISA">
      <div class="chapter ch65" data-usfm="ISA.65">
         <div class="label">65</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Salvation</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I was found by those who did not seek me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">To a nation that did not call on my name,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">I said, &#8216;Here am I, here am I.&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.65.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">All day long I have held out my hands</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">to an obstinate people,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">who walk in ways not good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">pursuing their own imaginations&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.65.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">a people who continually provoke me</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">to my very face,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">offering sacrifices in gardens</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">and burning incense on altars of brick;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.65.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">who sit among the graves</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">who eat the flesh of pigs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.65.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">who say, &#8216;Keep away; don&#8217;t come near me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">for I am too sacred for you!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">Such people are smoke in my nostrils,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">a fire that keeps burning all day.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.65.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, it stands written before me:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will not keep silent but will pay back in full;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">I will pay it back into their laps&#8212;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.65.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">&#8220;Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">and defied me on the hills,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">I will measure into their laps</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">the full payment for their former deeds.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.65.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">&#8220;As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">and people say, &#8216;Don&#8217;t destroy it,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">there is still a blessing in it,&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">so will I do in behalf of my servants;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">I will not destroy them all.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.65.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and from Judah those who will possess my mountains;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">my chosen people will inherit them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">and there will my servants live.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.65.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Sharon will become a pasture for flocks,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">and the Valley of Achor a resting place for herds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">for my people who seek me.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.65.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">&#8220;But as for you who forsake the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and forget my holy mountain,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">who spread a table for Fortune</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.65.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I will destine you for the sword,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and all of you will fall in the slaughter;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">for I called but you did not answer,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">I spoke but you did not listen.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">You did evil in my sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">and chose what displeases me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.65.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">Therefore this is what the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">&#8220;My servants will eat,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go hungry;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will drink,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will go thirsty;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">my servants will rejoice,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">but you will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.65.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">My servants will sing</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">out of the joy of their hearts,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">but you will cry out</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">from anguish of heart</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">and wail in brokenness of spirit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.65.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">You will leave your name</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">for my chosen ones to use in their curses;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">the Sovereign </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will put you to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">but to his servants he will give another name.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.65.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">Whoever invokes a blessing in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will do so by the one true God;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">whoever takes an oath in the land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">will swear by the one true God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">For the past troubles will be forgotten</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">and hidden from my eyes.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">New Heavens and a New Earth</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.65.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;See, I will create</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">new heavens and a new earth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">The former things will not be remembered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">nor will they come to mind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.65.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">But be glad and rejoice forever</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">in what I will create,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">for I will create Jerusalem to be a delight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">and its people a joy.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.65.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">I will rejoice over Jerusalem</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">and take delight in my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">the sound of weeping and of crying</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">will be heard in it no more.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.65.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;Never again will there be in it</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">an infant who lives but a few days,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">or an old man who does not live out his years;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who dies at a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be thought a mere child;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">the one who fails to reach</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">65:20 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the sinner who reaches</span></span></span><span class="content"> a hundred</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">will be considered accursed.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.65.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">They will build houses and dwell in them;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.65.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">No longer will they build houses and others live in them,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">or plant and others eat.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">For as the days of a tree,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">so will be the days of my people;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">my chosen ones will long enjoy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">the work of their hands.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.65.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">They will not labor in vain,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">for they will be a people blessed by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">they and their descendants with them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.65.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">Before they call I will answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">while they are still speaking I will hear.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.65.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">The wolf and the lamb will feed together,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and the lion will eat straw like the ox,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">and dust will be the serpent&#8217;s food.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">They will neither harm nor destroy</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">on all my holy mountain,&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="ISA.65.25"><span class="content">says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div>
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         <div class="label">66</div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Judgment and Hope</span></div><div class="p"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">This is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">&#8220;Heaven is my throne,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">and the earth is my footstool.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">Where is the house you will build for me?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">Where will my resting place be?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ISA.66.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Has not my hand made all these things,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">and so they came into being?&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q4"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">&#8220;These are the ones I look on with favor:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">those who are humble and contrite in spirit,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">and who tremble at my word.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ISA.66.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">But whoever sacrifices a bull</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who kills a person,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and whoever offers a lamb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who breaks a dog&#8217;s neck;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">whoever makes a grain offering</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who presents pig&#8217;s blood,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and whoever burns memorial incense</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">is like one who worships an idol.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">They have chosen their own ways,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">and they delight in their abominations;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ISA.66.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">so I also will choose harsh treatment for them</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">and will bring on them what they dread.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">For when I called, no one answered,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">when I spoke, no one listened.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">They did evil in my sight</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">and chose what displeases me.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ISA.66.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">Hear the word of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">you who tremble at his word:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">&#8220;Your own people who hate you,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">and exclude you because of my name, have said,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">&#8216;Let the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> be glorified,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">that we may see your joy!&#8217;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">Yet they will be put to shame.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ISA.66.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">Hear that uproar from the city,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">hear that noise from the temple!</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">It is the sound of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">repaying his enemies all they deserve.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ISA.66.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">&#8220;Before she goes into labor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">she gives birth;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">before the pains come upon her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">she delivers a son.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ISA.66.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">Who has ever heard of such things?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Who has ever seen things like this?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Can a country be born in a day</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">or a nation be brought forth in a moment?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">Yet no sooner is Zion in labor</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">than she gives birth to her children.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ISA.66.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Do I bring to the moment of birth</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">and not give delivery?&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">&#8220;Do I close up the womb</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">when I bring to delivery?&#8221; says your God.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ISA.66.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">&#8220;Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">all you who love her;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">rejoice greatly with her,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">all you who mourn over her.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ISA.66.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">For you will nurse and be satisfied</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">at her comforting breasts;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">you will drink deeply</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">and delight in her overflowing abundance.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ISA.66.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">For this is what the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> says:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">&#8220;I will extend peace to her like a river,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">and the wealth of nations like a flooding stream;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">you will nurse and be carried on her arm</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">and dandled on her knees.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ISA.66.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">As a mother comforts her child,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">so will I comfort you;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">and you will be comforted over Jerusalem.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ISA.66.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">When you see this, your heart will rejoice</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">and you will flourish like grass;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">the hand of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will be made known to his servants,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">but his fury will be shown to his foes.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ISA.66.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">See, the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> is coming with fire,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">and his chariots are like a whirlwind;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">he will bring down his anger with fury,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">and his rebuke with flames of fire.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="ISA.66.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">For with fire and with his sword</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> will execute judgment on all people,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">and many will be those slain by the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="ISA.66.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.66.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">&#8220;Those who consecrate and purify themselves to go into the gardens, following one who is among those who eat the flesh of pigs, rats and other unclean things&#8212;they will meet their end together with the one they follow,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="ISA.66.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.66.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">&#8220;And I, because of what they have planned and done, am about to come</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:18 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> and gather the people of all nations and languages, and they will come and see my glory.</span></span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="ISA.66.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="ISA.66.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">&#8220;I will set a sign among them, and I will send some of those who survive to the nations&#8212;to Tarshish, to the Libyans</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">66:19 </span><span class="ft">Some Septuagint manuscripts </span><span class="fqa">Put </span><span class="ft">(Libyans); Hebrew </span><span class="fqa">Pul</span></span></span><span class="content"> and Lydians (famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to the distant islands that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory. They will proclaim my glory among the nations. </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="ISA.66.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">And they will bring all your people, from all the nations, to my holy mountain in Jerusalem as an offering to the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">&#8212;on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. &#8220;They will bring them, as the Israelites bring their grain offerings, to the temple of the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content"> in ceremonially clean vessels. </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.66.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">And I will select some of them also to be priests and Levites,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="ISA.66.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="ISA.66.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">&#8220;As the new heavens and the new earth that I make will endure before me,&#8221; declares the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, &#8220;so will your name and descendants endure. </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="ISA.66.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come and bow down before me,&#8221; says the </span><span class="nd"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">. </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="ISA.66.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;And they will go out and look on the dead bodies of those who rebelled against me; the worms that eat them will not die, the fire that burns them will not be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.&#8221;</span></span></div>
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