Isaiah 66
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True Worship
1Thus says the Lord:
Heaven is My throne,
and the earth is My footstool.
Where then is the house that you could build for Me? # 1Ki 8:27; Ps 110:1; Mt 5:34–35
And where is the place of My rest?
2For My hand made all those things,
thus all those things have come to be,
says the Lord.
But to this man I will look,
even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, # Ps 34:18; Isa 57:15
and trembles at My word.
3He who kills a bull
is as if he kills a man;
he who sacrifices a lamb,
as if he breaks a dog’s neck;
he who offers a grain offering,
as if he offers swine’s blood;
he who burns incense, # Lev 2:2
as if he blesses an idol.
They have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations;
4I also will choose their punishments
and will bring their fears on them,
because when I called, no one answered;
when I spoke, they did not listen;
but they did evil before My eyes
and chose that in which I did not delight. # 2Ki 21:2, 6; Isa 65:12
The Vindication of Zion
5Hear the word of the Lord,
you who tremble at His word:
Your brothers who hate you, # Ps 38:20
who cast you out for My name’s sake, said,
“Let the Lord be glorified
that we may see your joy.”
Yet they shall be ashamed.
6A voice of noise from the city,
a voice from the temple,
the voice of the Lord
who renders recompense to His enemies. # Isa 59:18
7Before she was in labor, # Isa 54:1
she gave birth;
before her pain came,
she delivered a son.
8Who has heard such a thing?
Who has seen such things? # Isa 64:4
Shall the earth be made to give birth in one day?
Shall a nation be born at once?
For as soon as Zion was in labor,
she brought forth her sons.
9Shall I bring to the point of birth # Isa 37:3
and not cause delivery? says the Lord.
Shall I who cause delivery
shut the womb? says your God.
10Rejoice with Jerusalem and be glad for her, # Dt 32:43
all you who love her; # Ps 26:8
rejoice exceedingly with her,
all you who mourn for her,
11that you may feed and be satisfied
with her consoling breasts,
that you may feed
and be delighted with the abundance of her bosom. # Isa 60:16
12For thus says the Lord:
Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river # Isa 48:18
and the glory of the nations like a flowing stream.
Then you shall nurse, you shall be carried on her sides,
and dandled on her knees.
13As one whom his mother comforts,
so I will comfort you;
and you shall be comforted in Jerusalem. # Isa 51:3
God’s Reign and Final Judgment
14Then you shall see this, and your heart shall rejoice,
and your bones shall flourish like an herb;
and the hand of the Lord shall be known toward His servants, # Ezr 7:9; 8:31
and His indignation toward His enemies.
15For behold, the Lord shall come with fire,
and with His chariots like a whirlwind, # Ps 68:17
to render His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire. # Isa 30:33
16For by fire and by His sword on all flesh, # Isa 27:1; Eze 38:21–22
the Lord shall execute judgment;
and the slain of the Lord shall be many.
17Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves in the gardens behind one tree in the midst, eating swine’s flesh, and abominable things, # Isa 65:3–4 and mice shall be consumed together, says the Lord.
18For I know their works and their thoughts. The time shall come to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. # Isa 2:2
19I will set a sign among them, and send from them survivors to the nations: to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud # Eze 27:10 —who draw the bow—to Tubal, and Javan, # Ge 10:2 to the coastlands afar off who have not heard My fame or seen My glory. And they shall declare My glory among the nations. 20They shall bring all your brothers out of all nations # Isa 43:6 as an offering to the Lord on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on swift beasts to My holy mountain Jerusalem, # Isa 11:9 says the Lord, as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord. 21I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites, # Ex 19:6; Isa 61:6 says the Lord.
22For as the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before Me, # Isa 65:17; Rev 21:1 says the Lord, so shall your descendants and your name remain. 23From one New Moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, # Eze 46:1 all flesh shall come to worship before Me, # Ps 86:9 says the Lord. 24And they shall go forth and look on the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me. For neither shall their worm die # Isa 14:11 nor shall their fire be quenched. And they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.
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