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Isaiah 65
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Judgment and Salvation...
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`I have let Myself be inquired of, not by those who asked; I was found, not by those who sought Me. I said, `Here I am, here I am,` to a nation not calling on My Name.
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'I have held out My hands all day long to a stubborn people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
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the people who provoke Me continually to My face, who slaughter in gardens, and burn incense on altars of brick;
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who sit among the graves, and spend the night in secret places, who eat flesh of pigs, and the broth of unclean meat is in their pots,
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who say, 'Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am set-apart to you!' These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day.
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'See, it is written before Me: I am not silent, but shall repay, and I shall repay into their bosom,
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your crookednesses and the crookednesses of your fathers together,' said YHWH, 'who burned incense on the mountains and reproached Me on the hills. And I shall measure their former work into their bosom.'
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Thus said YHWH, 'As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one shall say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is blessing in it,' so I do for My servants' sake, not to destroy them all.
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'And I shall bring forth a seed from Ya'aqob, and from Yehudah an heir of My mountains. And My chosen ones shall inherit it, and My servants dwell there.
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'And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the Valley of Akor a place for herds to lie down, for My people who have sought Me.
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'But you are those who forsake YHWH, who forget My set-apart mountain, who prepare a table for Gad, and who fill a drink offering for Meni.
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'And I shall allot you to the sword, and let you all bow down to the slaughter, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not hear, and you did evil before My eyes and chose that in which I did not delight.'
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Therefore thus said the Master YHWH, 'See, My servants eat, but you hunger; see, My servants drink, but you thirst; see, My servants rejoice, but you are put to shame;
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see, My servants sing for joy of heart, but you cry for sorrow of heart, and wail for breaking of spirit.
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'And you shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen, for the Master YHWH shall put you to death, and call His servants by another name,
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so that he who blesses himself in the earth does bless himself in the Elohim of truth. And he who swears in the earth does swear by the Elohim of truth. Because the former distresses shall be forgotten, and because they shall be hidden from My eyes.
New Heavens and a New Earth...
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`For look, I am creating new heavens and a new earth, and the former shall not be remembered, nor come to heart.
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'But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for look, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
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'And I shall rejoice in Yerushalayim, and shall joy in My people, and let the voice of weeping no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
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`No more is an infant from there going to live but a few days, nor an old man who does not complete his days, for the youth dies one hundred years old, but the sinner being one hundred years old shall be lightly esteemed.
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'And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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'They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat. For the days of My people are going to be as the days of a tree, and My chosen ones outlive the work of their hands.
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'They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble. For they are the seed of the blessed of YHWH, and their offspring with them.
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'And it shall be that before they call, I answer. And while they are still speaking, I hear.
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`Wolf and lamb feed together, a lion eats straw as an ox, and dust is the snake`s food. They shall do no evil, nor destroy in all My set-apart mountain,` said YHWH.
Isaiah 65
Isaiah 65 |