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CHAPTER 65.
THEY have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me
that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call
upon my name.
2 I have spread forth my hands all the day to an
unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own
thoughts.
3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before
my face: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.
4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of
idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
5 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because
thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.
6 Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent,
but I will render and repay into their bosom.
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers
together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have
reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their
bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster,
and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the
sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out
of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my
servants shall dwell there.
10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of hocks,
and the valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my
people that have sought me.
11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have
forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon
it,
12 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all
fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you
did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that
displease me.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my
servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink,
and you shall be thirsty.
14 Behold 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 shall howl for grief of spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to
my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another
name.
16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be
blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God,
amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid
from my eyes.
17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth:
and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shell not come upon
the heart.
18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these
things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, end the
people thereof joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my
people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice
of crying.
20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor
an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred
years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and
they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they
shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the
days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.
23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth
in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their
posterity with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I
will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion
and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall
not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
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