# Isaiah 65 (New King James Version)
The Righteousness of God's Judgment

##### Chapter 65
###### 1 "I was sought by _those who_ did not ask _for Me;_  
I was found by _those who_ did not seek Me.  
I said, 'Here I am, here I am,'  
To a nation _that_ was not called by My name.  

###### 2 I have stretched out My hands all day long to a rebellious people,  
Who walk in a way _that is_ not good,  
According to their own thoughts;  

###### 3 A people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face;  
Who sacrifice in gardens,  
And burn incense on altars of brick;  

###### 4 Who sit among the graves,  
And spend the night in the tombs;  
Who eat swine's flesh,  
And the broth of abominable things is _in_ their vessels;  

###### 5 Who say, 'Keep to yourself,  
Do not come near me,  
For I am holier than you!'  
These _are_ smoke in My nostrils,  
A fire that burns all the day.

###### 6 "Behold, _it is_ written before Me:  
I will not keep silence, but will repay--  
Even repay into their bosom--  

###### 7 Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,"  
Says the Lord,  
"Who have burned incense on the mountains  
And blasphemed Me on the hills;  
Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom."

###### 8 Thus says the Lord:
"As the new wine is found in the cluster,  
And _one_ says, 'Do not destroy it,  
For a blessing _is_ in it,'  
So will I do for My servants' sake,  
That I may not destroy them all.  

###### 9 I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,  
And from Judah an heir of My mountains;  
My elect shall inherit it,  
And My servants shall dwell there.  

###### 10 Sharon shall be a fold of flocks,  
And the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,  
For My people who have sought Me.

###### 11 "But you _are_ those who forsake the Lord,  
Who forget My holy mountain,  
Who prepare a table for Gad,  
And who furnish a drink offering for Meni.  

###### 12 Therefore I will number you for the sword,  
And you shall all bow down to the slaughter;  
Because, when I called, you did not answer;  
When I spoke, you did not hear,  
But did evil before My eyes,  
And chose _that_ in which I do not delight."

###### 13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
"Behold, My servants shall eat,  
But you shall be hungry;  
Behold, My servants shall drink,  
But you shall be thirsty;  
Behold, My servants shall rejoice,  
But you shall be ashamed;  

###### 14 Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart,  
But you shall cry for sorrow of heart,  
And wail for grief of spirit.  

###### 15 You shall leave your name as a curse to My chosen;  
For the Lord God will slay you,  
And call His servants by another name;  

###### 16 So that he who blesses himself in the earth  
Shall bless himself in the God of truth;  
And he who swears in the earth  
Shall swear by the God of truth;  
Because the former troubles are forgotten,  
And because they are hidden from My eyes.The Glorious New Creation

###### 17 "For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;  
And the former shall not be remembered or come to mind.  

###### 18 But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;  
For behold, I create Jerusalem _as_ a rejoicing,  
And her people a joy.  

###### 19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem,  
And joy in My people;  
The voice of weeping shall no longer be heard in her,  
Nor the voice of crying.

###### 20 "No more shall an infant from there _live but a few_ days,  
Nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days;  
For the child shall die one hundred years old,  
But the sinner _being_ one hundred years old shall be accursed.  

###### 21 They shall build houses and inhabit _them;_  
They shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.  

###### 22 They shall not build and another inhabit;  
They shall not plant and another eat;  
For as the days of a tree, _so shall be_ the days of My people,  
And My elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.  

###### 23 They shall not labor in vain,  
Nor bring forth children for trouble;  
For they _shall be_ the descendants of the blessed of the Lord,  
And their offspring with them.

###### 24 "It shall come to pass  
That before they call, I will answer;  
And while they are still speaking, I will hear.  

###### 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together,  
The lion shall eat straw like the ox,  
And dust _shall be_ the serpent's food.  
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all My holy mountain,"  
Says the Lord.