Chapter 65

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I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.

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I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walks in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

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A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense upon altars of brick;

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Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

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Which say, Stand by yourself, come not near to me; for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.

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Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

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Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahuah, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

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Thus says Yahuah, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Destroy it not; for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

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And I will bring forth a seed out of Ya`aqov, and out of Yahudah an inheritor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

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And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Akor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

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But ye are they that forsake Yahuah, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Gad, and that furnish the drink offering unto Meniy.

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Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spoke, ye did not hear; but did evil before my eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

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Therefore thus says Adonai Yahuah, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:

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Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of the ruach.

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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for Adonai Yahuah shall slay you, and call his servants by another name:

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That he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself in the Elohai of Truth; and he that swears in the earth shall swear by the Elohai of Truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

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For, behold, I create renewed heavens and a renewed earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

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But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Yerushalayim a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

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And I will rejoice in Yerushalayim, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

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There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that has not filled his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old; but the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.

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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and my elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahuah, and their offspring with them.

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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, says Yahuah.



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