Isaiah 66

1Yahweh says: “Heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool. What kind of house will you build to me? Where will I rest?Cross-references: 2Sam 7:5 · 1Ki 8:27 · 1Chr 28:2 · 2Chr 6:18 · Ps 11:4 · Ps 99:9 · +9 more

2For my hand has made all these things, and so all these things came to be,” says Yahweh: “but I will look to this man, even to he who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who trembles at my word.Cross-references: Gen 1:1 · 2Ki 22:19 · 2Chr 34:27 · Ezra 9:4 · Ezra 10:3 · Ps 34:18 · +19 more

3He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog’s neck; he who offers an offering, as he who offers pig’s blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations.Cross-references: Lev 2:2 · Deut 14:8 · Deut 23:18 · Judg 5:8 · Judg 10:14 · Prov 15:8 · +7 more

4I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears on them, because when I called, no one answered; when I spoke, they didn’t listen, but they did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”Cross-references: 1Ki 22:19 · 2Ki 21:2 · 2Ki 21:6 · Ps 81:12 · Prov 1:24 · Prov 1:31 · +8 more

5Hear Yahweh’s word, you who tremble at his word: “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for my name’s sake, have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your joy;’ but it is those who shall be disappointed.Cross-references: Ps 38:20 · Prov 13:13 · Song 1:6 · Isa 5:19 · Isa 60:15 · Isa 66:2 · +17 more

6A voice of tumult from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of Yahweh that repays his enemies what they deserve.Cross-references: Isa 34:8 · Isa 59:18 · Isa 65:5 · Joel 3:7 · Amos 1:2

7“Before she travailed, she gave birth. Before her pain came, she delivered a son.Cross-references: Isa 54:1 · Gal 4:26 · Rev 12:1

8Who has heard of such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be born at once? For as soon as Zion travailed, she gave birth to her children.Cross-references: Isa 49:20 · Isa 64:4 · Acts 2:41 · Acts 4:4 · Acts 21:20 · Rom 15:18 · +1 more

9Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to be delivered?” says Yahweh. “Shall I who cause to give birth shut the womb?” says your God.Cross-references: Gen 18:14 · Isa 37:3

10“Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad for her, all you who love her. Rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn over her;Cross-references: Deut 32:43 · Ps 26:8 · Ps 84:1 · Ps 122:6 · Ps 137:6 · Isa 44:23 · +6 more

11that you may nurse and be satisfied at the comforting breasts; that you may drink deeply, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.”Cross-references: Ps 36:8 · Isa 60:5 · Isa 60:16 · Joel 3:18 · 1Pet 2:2

12For Yahweh says, “Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and you will nurse. You will be carried on her side, and will be dandled on her knees.Cross-references: Ps 72:3 · Isa 9:7 · Isa 45:14 · Isa 48:18 · Isa 49:19 · Isa 54:3 · +5 more

13As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem.”Cross-references: Ps 137:6 · Isa 40:1 · Isa 51:3 · Isa 65:18 · Isa 66:10 · 2Cor 1:4 · +1 more

14You will see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones will flourish like the tender grass. Yahweh’s hand will be known among his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.Cross-references: Ezra 7:9 · Ezra 8:18 · Ezra 8:22 · Ezra 8:31 · Prov 3:8 · Prov 17:22 · +11 more

15For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to give his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.Cross-references: Ps 11:6 · Ps 21:9 · Ps 50:3 · Ps 68:17 · Ps 97:3 · Isa 30:27 · +7 more

16For Yahweh will execute judgment by fire and by his sword on all flesh; and those slain by Yahweh will be many.Cross-references: Isa 27:1 · Isa 30:30 · Isa 34:5 · Ezek 38:21 · Ezek 39:2 · Rev 19:11

17“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, following one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Lev 11:2 · Deut 14:3 · Isa 1:28 · Isa 65:3

18“For I know their works and their thoughts. The time comes that I will gather all nations and languages, and they will come, and will see my glory.Cross-references: Deut 31:21 · Job 42:2 · Ps 67:2 · Ps 72:11 · Ps 72:17 · Ps 82:8 · +22 more

19“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.Cross-references: Gen 10:2 · Gen 10:4 · Gen 10:13 · 1Chr 1:7 · 1Chr 1:11 · 1Chr 16:24 · +32 more

20They shall bring all your brothers out of all the nations for an offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says Yahweh, as the children of Israel bring their offering in a clean vessel into Yahweh’s house.Cross-references: Isa 11:9 · Isa 43:6 · Isa 49:12 · Isa 52:11 · Isa 54:3 · Isa 56:7 · +7 more

21Of them I will also select priests and Levites,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: Ex 19:6 · Isa 61:6 · Jer 13:18 · 1Pet 2:5 · 1Pet 2:9 · Rev 1:6 · +2 more

22“For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make, shall remain before me,” says Yahweh, “so your offspring and your name shall remain.Cross-references: Isa 65:17 · Matt 28:20 · John 10:27 · Heb 12:26 · 1Pet 1:4 · 2Pet 3:13 · +1 more

23It shall happen that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, all flesh will come to worship before me,” says Yahweh.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:23 · Ps 65:2 · Ps 81:3 · Ps 86:9 · Isa 1:13 · Isa 19:21 · +9 more

24“They will go out, and look at the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me; for their worm will not die, nor will their fire be quenched, and they will be loathsome to all mankind.”Cross-references: Ps 58:10 · Isa 1:31 · Isa 14:11 · Isa 34:10 · Isa 65:15 · Isa 66:16 · +10 more