Isaiah 65:1-16

1“I was sought by those who did not ask for Me, I was found by those who did not seek Me. I said, ‘Hineni, hineni!’ to a nation not called by My Name.

2I have stretched out My hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own thoughts.

3These people provoke Me continually to My face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,

4sitting among graves, spending the night in cave-tombs; eating swine’s flesh, and the broth of detestable things is in their pots,

5who say, ‘Keep to yourself, don’t come to me, for I am holier than you!’ These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day.

6Behold, it is written before Me; I will not keep silence, but will repay, even repay into their laps,

7your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together,” says Adonai, “because they burned incense on the mountains, and scorned Me on the hills. So I will measure into their laps full wages for their former deeds.”

8Thus says Adonai: “As new wine is found in a cluster, and one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it,’ so I will do for My servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

9I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, an heir of My mountains from Judah. My chosen ones will inherit it, and My servants will dwell there.

10Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for My people who seek Me.

11But you who forsake Adonai, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, who fill cups of mixed wine for Fate,

12I will fate you to the sword, and all of you will kneel to slaughter. For I called, but you did not answer, I spoke, but you did not hear. So you did what was evil in My sight, and chose what I did not delight in.”

13Therefore thus says Adonai Elohim: “Behold, My servants will eat, while you will go hungry. Behold, My servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Behold, My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.

14Behold, My servants will sing for joy with a happy heart, but you will cry from pain of heart, and wail out of a broken spirit.

15You will leave your name behind as a curse for My chosen ones, and Adonai Elohim will slay you. But He will call His servants by another name.

16So he who says a bracha in the land will be blessed by the God of truth, and he who swears in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles are forgotten, because they are hidden from My sight!