Isaiah 65:1–9

¹“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.↗

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 my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;↗

⁴who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;↗

⁵who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.↗

⁶“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom↗

⁷your own 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 first measure their work into their bosom.”↗

⁸The LORD says, “As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’ so I will do for my servants’ sake, that I may not destroy them all.↗

⁹I will bring offspring out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains. My chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there.↗