65 Third John

13 Isaiah 65:1
¹I am sought by those who did not ask for me; I am found by those who did not seek; I said, Here I am, here I am, to a nation that has never called my name.

13 Isaiah 65:2-5
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,
³a people who provoke me to anger continually, who sacrifice in the gardens and burn incense on altars of bricks;
⁴who sit in tombs and lodge in caves, who eat swine's flesh and pollute their vessels with unclean carcasses; to break the law and to defile the holy contract, that they may provoke Yahvah.
⁵Who say, Keep away, do not come near me; for I am sanctified. These men are a smoke in my anger, a fire that burns all the day.

13 Isaiah 65:6-7
⁶Look, it is written before me: I will not keep silent until I repay them a double portion into their embrace.
⁷Their sins and the sins of their fathers are well known, says Yahvah, for they have burned incense on the mountains and disgraced me on the hills; therefore I will measure their former works into their embrace.

13 Isaiah 65:8-12
⁸Yahvah says, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says to another, Do not destroy it, for a blessing is in it; so I will do for my servant's sake, and I will not destroy them all.
⁹And I will bring forth an offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; my elect will inherit it and my servants will live there.
¹⁰And Sharon will be a fold for flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in for my people who have sought me.
¹¹But as for you who have forsaken Yahvah and have forgotten his holy mountain, who prepare tables for fortune tellers and have poured out wine into bowls for them,
¹²I will deliver you up to the sword, and all of you will bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen; and you did evil in my presence, and chose the thing in which I do not delight.

13 Isaiah 65:13-16
¹³Therefore Master Yahvah says, Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry; look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty; look, my servants will rejoice, but you will weep;
¹⁴look my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will complain for sorrow of heart and for vexation of spirit.
¹⁵And you will leave your name for a curse to my chosen ones; for Master Yahvah will slay you, and call his servants by another name;
¹⁶so that he who blesses himself in the land will bless himself in the god of truth; and he who swears in the land will swear by the god of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hidden from my presence.

13 Isaiah 65:17-66:0
¹⁷For look, I create new skies and a new land; and the former things will not be remembered nor come into mind.
¹⁸But my people will be glad and rejoice forever because I am creating; for look, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and I will rejoice in it.
¹⁹And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and the voice of weeping will not be heard in her any longer, nor the voice of wailing any longer.
²⁰In her there will not be a child who dies in infancy any longer, nor an old man who has not filled his days; for the child will die 100 years old; but a sinner being 100 years old will be accursed.
²¹They will build houses and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
²²They will not build and others inhabit; they will not plant and others eat; for like the days of trees are the days of my people, and my chosen ones will eat the work of their hands.
²³They will not labor in vain nor bring forth sons for a curse; for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahvah, both they and their sons with them.
²⁴And it will come to pass that before they call I will answer them; and before they speak I will hear them.
²⁵The wolf and the lamb will feed together and the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpents' food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain says Yahvah.