Isaiah 65

New Heavens and a New Earth

1I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask;
I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am, here I am,” to a nation that did not call on my name. 2I have spread out my hands all the 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 lodge in the secret places;
who eat pig's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

5who say, Stand by yourself, do not come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day. 6Look, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yes, I will recompense 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 will I first measure their work into their bosom. 8Thus says the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one says, Don't destroy it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

9I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains;
and my chosen will inherit it, and my servants will dwell there. 10Sharon will be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me. 11But you who forsake the LORD, who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny; 12I will destine you to the sword, and you will all bow down to the slaughter;
because when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not hear;
but you did that which was evil in my eyes, and chose that in which I did not delight.

13Therefore thus says the Lord GOD, 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 be disappointed; 14look, my servants will sing for joy of heart, but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for vexation of spirit. 15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
and the Lord GOD will kill you;
and he will call his servants by another name: 16so that the one who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth;
and the one who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.

17For look, I am creating new heavens and a new earth;
the former things will not be remembered or come to mind. 18But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, look, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people;
and there will be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying. 20There will be no more there an infant of days, nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

21They will build houses, and inhabit them;
and they will plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. 22They will not build, and another inhabit;
they will not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree will be the days of my people, and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands. 23They will not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them. 24It will happen that, before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25The wolf and the lamb will feed together;
the lion will eat straw like the ox, and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.