Isaiah 65 - New International Version (NIV)

Judgment and Salvation

65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
I was found by those who did not seek me.(A)
To a nation(B) that did not call on my name,(C)
I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands
to an obstinate people,(D)
who walk in ways not good,
pursuing their own imaginations(E)—
3 a people who continually provoke me
to my very face,(F)
offering sacrifices in gardens(G)
and burning incense(H) on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves(I)
and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(J)
and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
for I am too sacred(K) for you!’
Such people are smoke(L) in my nostrils,
a fire that keeps burning all day.

6 “See, it stands written before me:
I will not keep silent(M) but will pay back(N) in full;
I will pay it back into their laps(O)—
7 both your sins(P) and the sins of your ancestors,”(Q)
says the Lord.
“Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains
and defied me on the hills,(R)
I will measure into their laps
the full payment(S) for their former deeds.”

8 This is what the Lord says:

“As when juice is still found in a cluster of grapes(T)
and people say, ‘Don’t destroy it,
there is still a blessing in it,’
so will I do in behalf of my servants;(U)
I will not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth descendants(V) from Jacob,
and from Judah those who will possess(W) my mountains;
my chosen(X) people will inherit them,
and there will my servants live.(Y)
10 Sharon(Z) will become a pasture for flocks,(AA)
and the Valley of Achor(AB) a resting place for herds,
for my people who seek(AC) me.

11 “But as for you who forsake(AD) the Lord
and forget my holy mountain,(AE)
who spread a table for Fortune
and fill bowls of mixed wine(AF) for Destiny,
12 I will destine you for the sword,(AG)
and all of you will fall in the slaughter;(AH)
for I called but you did not answer,(AI)
I spoke but you did not listen.(AJ)
You did evil in my sight
and chose what displeases me.”(AK)

13 Therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“My servants will eat,(AL)
but you will go hungry;(AM)
my servants will drink,(AN)
but you will go thirsty;(AO)
my servants will rejoice,(AP)
but you will be put to shame.(AQ)
14 My servants will sing(AR)
out of the joy of their hearts,
but you will cry out(AS)
from anguish of heart
and wail in brokenness of spirit.
15 You will leave your name
for my chosen ones to use in their curses;(AT)
the Sovereign Lord will put you to death,
but to his servants he will give another name.(AU)
16 Whoever invokes a blessing(AV) in the land
will do so by the one true God;(AW)
whoever takes an oath in the land
will swear(AX) by the one true God.
For the past troubles(AY) will be forgotten
and hidden from my eyes.

New Heavens and a New Earth

17 “See, I will create
new heavens and a new earth.(AZ)
The former things will not be remembered,(BA)
nor will they come to mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice(BB) forever
in what I will create,
for I will create Jerusalem(BC) to be a delight
and its people a joy.
19 I will rejoice(BD) over Jerusalem
and take delight(BE) in my people;
the sound of weeping and of crying(BF)
will be heard in it no more.

20 “Never again will there be in it
an infant(BG) who lives but a few days,
or an old man who does not live out his years;(BH)
the one who dies at a hundred
will be thought a mere child;
the one who fails to reach[a] a hundred
will be considered accursed.
21 They will build houses(BI) and dwell in them;
they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.(BJ)
22 No longer will they build houses and others live in them,(BK)
or plant and others eat.
For as the days of a tree,(BL)
so will be the days(BM) of my people;
my chosen(BN) ones will long enjoy
the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,(BO)
nor will they bear children doomed to misfortune;(BP)
for they will be a people blessed(BQ) by the Lord,
they and their descendants(BR) with them.
24 Before they call(BS) I will answer;(BT)
while they are still speaking(BU) I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb(BV) will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox,(BW)
and dust will be the serpent’s(BX) food.
They will neither harm nor destroy
on all my holy mountain,”(BY)
says the Lord.

Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:20 Or the sinner who reaches

Cross references

  1. Isaiah 65:1 : Hos 1:10; Ro 9:24-26; 10:20*
  2. Isaiah 65:1 : Ro 9:30; Eph 2:12
  3. Isaiah 65:1 : S Ps 14:4; S Isa 43:7
  4. Isaiah 65:2 : S Ps 78:8; S Isa 1:2, 23; Ro 10:21*
  5. Isaiah 65:2 : Ps 81:11-12; S Pr 24:2; Isa 66:18
  6. Isaiah 65:3 : S Job 1:11
  7. Isaiah 65:3 : S Isa 1:29
  8. Isaiah 65:3 : S Lev 2:2; Jer 41:5; 44:17; Eze 23:41
  9. Isaiah 65:4 : S Lev 19:31; S Isa 8:19
  10. Isaiah 65:4 : S Lev 11:7
  11. Isaiah 65:5 : S Ps 40:4; Mt 9:11; Lk 7:39; 18:9-12
  12. Isaiah 65:5 : Pr 10:26
  13. Isaiah 65:6 : S Ps 50:3
  14. Isaiah 65:6 : S 2Ch 6:23; Isa 59:18; Jer 16:18
  15. Isaiah 65:6 : S Ps 79:12; Eze 9:10; Lk 6:38
  16. Isaiah 65:7 : S Isa 22:14
  17. Isaiah 65:7 : Ex 20:5; Jer 32:18
  18. Isaiah 65:7 : S Isa 57:7
  19. Isaiah 65:7 : S Pr 10:24; S Isa 10:12
  20. Isaiah 65:8 : Isa 5:2
  21. Isaiah 65:8 : S Isa 54:17
  22. Isaiah 65:9 : S Isa 45:19
  23. Isaiah 65:9 : S Nu 34:13; S Isa 60:21; Jer 50:19; Am 9:11-15
  24. Isaiah 65:9 : S Isa 14:1
  25. Isaiah 65:9 : Isa 32:18
  26. Isaiah 65:10 : S 1Ch 27:29; S Isa 35:2; Ac 9:35
  27. Isaiah 65:10 : Jer 31:12; 33:12; Eze 34:13-14
  28. Isaiah 65:10 : S Jos 7:26
  29. Isaiah 65:10 : S Isa 51:1
  30. Isaiah 65:11 : Dt 28:20; 29:24-25; S 32:15; Isa 1:28; Jer 2:13; 19:4
  31. Isaiah 65:11 : S Dt 33:19; S Ps 137:5
  32. Isaiah 65:11 : S Isa 5:22
  33. Isaiah 65:12 : S Isa 1:20; S 27:1
  34. Isaiah 65:12 : S Isa 30:25
  35. Isaiah 65:12 : S Pr 1:24-25; S Isa 41:28; 66:4; Jer 7:27
  36. Isaiah 65:12 : 2Ch 36:15-16; Jer 7:13; 13:11; 25:3; 26:5
  37. Isaiah 65:12 : Ps 149:7; Isa 1:24; 66:4; Mic 5:15
  38. Isaiah 65:13 : S Isa 1:19
  39. Isaiah 65:13 : S Job 18:12; Lk 6:25
  40. Isaiah 65:13 : S Isa 33:16
  41. Isaiah 65:13 : S Isa 3:1; 41:17
  42. Isaiah 65:13 : S Isa 60:5; 61:7
  43. Isaiah 65:13 : S Isa 44:9
  44. Isaiah 65:14 : S Ps 109:28; Zep 3:14-20; Jas 5:13
  45. Isaiah 65:14 : S Isa 15:2; Mt 8:12; Lk 13:28
  46. Isaiah 65:15 : S Nu 5:27; S Ps 102:8
  47. Isaiah 65:15 : S Ge 32:28; Rev 2:17
  48. Isaiah 65:16 : S Dt 29:19
  49. Isaiah 65:16 : Ps 31:5; Rev 3:14
  50. Isaiah 65:16 : S Ps 63:11; S Isa 19:18
  51. Isaiah 65:16 : S Job 11:16
  52. Isaiah 65:17 : S Isa 41:22; 66:22; 2Co 5:17; S 2Pe 3:13
  53. Isaiah 65:17 : Isa 43:18; Jer 3:16; S Rev 7:17
  54. Isaiah 65:18 : S Dt 32:43; Ps 98:1-9; S Isa 25:9
  55. Isaiah 65:18 : Rev 21:2
  56. Isaiah 65:19 : S Isa 35:10; S 62:5
  57. Isaiah 65:19 : S Dt 30:9
  58. Isaiah 65:19 : S Isa 25:8; Rev 7:17
  59. Isaiah 65:20 : Isa 11:8
  60. Isaiah 65:20 : Ge 5:1-32; S 15:15; S Ecc 8:13; Zec 8:4
  61. Isaiah 65:21 : S Isa 32:18; S 61:4
  62. Isaiah 65:21 : S 2Ki 19:29; S Isa 37:30; Eze 28:26; Am 9:14
  63. Isaiah 65:22 : S Dt 28:30
  64. Isaiah 65:22 : Ps 1:3; 92:12-14
  65. Isaiah 65:22 : Ps 21:4; 91:16
  66. Isaiah 65:22 : S Isa 14:1
  67. Isaiah 65:23 : S Isa 49:4; 1Co 15:58
  68. Isaiah 65:23 : Dt 28:32, 41; Jer 16:3-4
  69. Isaiah 65:23 : S Ge 12:2; S Dt 28:3-12
  70. Isaiah 65:23 : S Isa 44:3; Ac 2:39
  71. Isaiah 65:24 : S Isa 55:6; Mt 6:8
  72. Isaiah 65:24 : S Job 8:6; S Isa 30:19; S Zec 10:6
  73. Isaiah 65:24 : Da 9:20-23; 10:12
  74. Isaiah 65:25 : Isa 11:6
  75. Isaiah 65:25 : S Job 40:15
  76. Isaiah 65:25 : Ge 3:14; Mic 7:17
  77. Isaiah 65:25 : S Job 5:23; S Isa 2:4

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