Isaiah 65

1“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.Cross-references: Ps 22:27 · Isa 2:2 · Isa 11:10 · Isa 40:9 · Isa 41:27 · Isa 43:1 · +12 more

2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;Cross-references: Gen 6:5 · Num 15:39 · Deut 9:7 · Deut 29:19 · Deut 31:27 · Ps 36:4 · +24 more

3a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;Cross-references: Ex 20:24 · Ex 30:1 · Lev 17:5 · Deut 32:16 · Deut 32:21 · 2Ki 17:14 · +13 more

4who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;Cross-references: Ex 23:19 · Ex 34:26 · Lev 11:7 · Num 19:11 · Num 19:16 · Deut 14:3 · +9 more

5who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.Cross-references: Deut 29:20 · Deut 32:20 · Prov 6:16 · Prov 10:26 · Prov 16:5 · Matt 9:11 · +10 more

6“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosomCross-references: Ex 17:14 · Deut 32:34 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 50:21 · Ps 56:8 · Ps 79:12 · +8 more

7your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Lev 26:39 · Num 32:14 · 1Ki 22:43 · 2Ki 12:3 · 2Ki 14:4 · +15 more

8Yahweh says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.Cross-references: Isa 6:13 · Jer 30:11 · Joel 2:14 · Amos 9:8 · Matt 24:22 · Mark 13:20 · +3 more

9I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.Cross-references: Isa 10:20 · Isa 11:11 · Isa 27:6 · Isa 32:18 · Isa 45:19 · Isa 65:15 · +14 more

10Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.Cross-references: Josh 7:24 · Isa 33:9 · Isa 35:2 · Isa 51:1 · Ezek 34:13 · Hos 2:15

11“But you who forsake Yahweh, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;Cross-references: Deut 29:24 · Deut 32:17 · 1Chr 28:9 · Ps 132:13 · Isa 1:28 · Isa 2:2 · +11 more

12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter; because when I called, you didn’t answer. When I spoke, you didn’t listen; but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”Cross-references: Lev 26:25 · Deut 32:25 · 2Chr 36:15 · Prov 1:24 · Isa 1:16 · Isa 3:25 · +18 more

13Therefore the Lord Yahweh says, “Behold, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; behold, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, my servants will rejoice, but you will be disappointed.Cross-references: Ps 34:10 · Ps 37:19 · Isa 1:19 · Isa 41:17 · Isa 44:9 · Isa 61:7 · +6 more

14Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.Cross-references: Job 29:13 · Ps 66:4 · Isa 24:14 · Isa 52:8 · Jer 31:7 · Matt 8:12 · +5 more

15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen, and the Lord Yahweh will kill you. He will call his servants by another name,Cross-references: Prov 10:7 · Isa 62:2 · Isa 65:9 · Isa 65:12 · Isa 65:22 · Isa 66:15 · +8 more

16so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my eyes.Cross-references: Deut 6:13 · Deut 10:20 · Deut 32:4 · Ps 31:5 · Ps 63:11 · Ps 72:17 · +24 more

17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.Cross-references: Isa 43:18 · Isa 51:16 · Isa 66:22 · Jer 3:16 · 2Pet 3:13 · Rev 21:1

18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.Cross-references: Ps 67:3 · Ps 96:10 · Ps 98:1 · Isa 12:4 · Isa 25:9 · Isa 42:10 · +10 more

19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and delight in my people; and the voice of weeping and the voice of crying will be heard in her no more.Cross-references: Song 3:11 · Isa 25:8 · Isa 35:10 · Isa 51:3 · Isa 51:11 · Isa 60:20 · +8 more

20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.Cross-references: Deut 4:40 · Job 5:26 · Ps 34:12 · Eccl 8:12 · Isa 3:11 · Rom 2:5

21They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Cross-references: Lev 26:16 · Deut 28:30 · Judg 6:1 · Isa 32:18 · Isa 37:30 · Isa 62:8 · +2 more

22They will not build and another inhabit. They will not plant and another eat; for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.Cross-references: Gen 5:5 · Gen 5:27 · Lev 26:16 · Ps 21:4 · Ps 91:16 · Ps 92:12 · +3 more

23They will not labor in vain nor give birth for calamity; for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed and their descendants with them.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 17:7 · Lev 26:3 · Lev 26:20 · Lev 26:22 · Lev 26:29 · +18 more

24It will happen that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.Cross-references: Ps 32:5 · Ps 50:15 · Ps 91:15 · Isa 55:6 · Isa 58:9 · Dan 9:20 · +7 more

25The wolf and the lamb will feed together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Gen 3:14 · Isa 2:4 · Isa 11:6 · Isa 35:9 · Isa 65:11 · Ezek 43:11 · +12 more