Berean Standard Bible

Isaiah 66:7-23

7“Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.8Who has heard of such as this? Who has seen such things? Can a country be born in a day or a nation be delivered in an instant? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, she gave birth to her children.9Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” says the LORD. “Or will I who deliver close the womb?” says your God.

10Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,all who love her.Rejoice greatly with her,all who mourn over her,11so that you may nurse and be satisfiedat her comforting breasts;you may drink deeply and delight yourselvesin her glorious abundance.

12For this is what the LORD says:

“I will extend peace to her like a river,and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream;you will nurse and be carried on her arm,and bounced upon her knees.13As a mother comforts her son,so will I comfort you,and you will be consoled over Jerusalem.”

14When you see, you will rejoice,and you will flourish like grass;then the hand of the LORD will be revealed to His servants,but His wrath will be shown to His enemies.

15For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with furyand His rebuke with flames of fire.16For by fire and by His sword,the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh,and many will be slain by the LORD.

17“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.

18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming1 to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.

19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands2 far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory.

So they will proclaim My glory among the nations. 20And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”

21“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.

22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,3which I will make, will endure before Me,”declares the LORD,“so your descendants and your name will endure.23From one New Moon to anotherand from one Sabbath to another,all mankind will come to worship before Me,”says the LORD.

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Notes

1. Isaiah 66:18 Literally And I, their deeds and their thoughts, am coming ↩
2. Isaiah 66:19 Or coastlands ↩
3. Isaiah 66:22 LXX the new heaven and the new earth; see also Isaiah 65:17 and Revelation 21:1. ↩

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