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# Chapter 65
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1 I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;
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I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
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I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
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to a nation that was not called by my name.
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2 I spread out my hands all the day
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to a rebellious people,
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who walk in a way that is not good,
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following their own devices;
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3 a people who provoke me
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to my face continually,
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sacrificing in gardens
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and making offerings on bricks;
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4 who sit in tombs,
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and spend the night in secret places;
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who eat pig's flesh,
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and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
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5 who say, “Keep to yourself,
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do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.”
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These are a smoke in my nostrils,
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a fire that burns all the day.
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6 Behold, it is written before me:
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“I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
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I will indeed repay into their lap
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7 both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together,
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says the Lord;
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because they made offerings on the mountains
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and insulted me on the hills,
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I will measure into their lap
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payment for their former deeds.”
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8 Thus says the Lord:
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“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
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and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,
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for there is a blessing in it,’
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so I will do for my servants' sake,
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and not destroy them all.
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9 I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
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and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
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my chosen shall possess it,
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and my servants shall dwell there.
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10 Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
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and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
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for my people who have sought me.
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11 But you who forsake the Lord,
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who forget my holy mountain,
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who set a table for Fortune
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and fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
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12 I will destine you to the sword,
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and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
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because, when I called, you did not answer;
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when I spoke, you did not listen,
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but you did what was evil in my eyes
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and chose what I did not delight in.”
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13 Therefore thus says the Lord God:
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“Behold, my servants shall eat,
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but you shall be hungry;
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behold, my servants shall drink,
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but you shall be thirsty;
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behold, my servants shall rejoice,
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but you shall be put to shame;
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14 behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
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but you shall cry out for pain of heart
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and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
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15 You shall leave your name to my chosen for a curse,
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and the Lord God will put you to death,
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but his servants he will call by another name,
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16 so that he who blesses himself in the land
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shall bless himself by the God of truth,
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and he who takes an oath in the land
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shall swear by the God of truth;
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because the former troubles are forgotten
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and are hidden from my eyes.
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17 “For behold, I create new heavens
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and a new earth,
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and the former things shall not be remembered
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or come into mind.
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18 But be glad and rejoice forever
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in that which I create;
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for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
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and her people to be a gladness.
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19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem
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and be glad in my people;
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no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
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and the cry of distress.
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20 No more shall there be in it
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an infant who lives but a few days,
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or an old man who does not fill out his days,
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for the young man shall die a hundred years old,
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and the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
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21 They shall build houses and inhabit them;
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they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
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22 They shall not build and another inhabit;
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they shall not plant and another eat;
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for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
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and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.
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23 They shall not labor in vain
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or bear children for calamity,
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for they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
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and their descendants with them.
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24 Before they call I will answer;
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while they are yet speaking I will hear.
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25 The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
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the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
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and dust shall be the serpent's food.
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They shall not hurt or destroy
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in all my holy mountain,”
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says the Lord. |