Isaiah:65

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* I was by those who did not ask . I am found by those who did not seek me . I said , Behold me , behold me , to a nation that was not called by my name . * I have spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people , who walk in a way that is not good , according to their own thoughts , * a people who provoke me to my face continually , sacrificing in gardens , and burning incense upon bricks , * who sit among the graves , and lodge in the secret places , who eat swine 's flesh , and broth of abominable things is in their vessels , * who say , Stand by thyself , do not come near to me , for I am holier than thou . These are a smoke in my nose , a fire that burns all the day . * Behold , it is written before me . I will not keep silence , but will recompense . Yea , I will recompense into their bosom * your own iniquities , and the iniquities of your fathers together , says LORD , [those ] who have burned incense upon the mountains , and blasphemed me upon the hills . Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom . * Thus says LORD , As the new wine is found in the cluster , and [a man ] says , Destroy it not , for a blessing is in it , so I will do for my servants ' sake , that I may not destroy them all . * And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob , and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains . And my chosen shall inherit it , and my servants shall dwell there . * And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks , and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lay down in , for my people who have sought me . * But ye who forsake LORD , who forget my holy mountain , who prepare a table for Fortune , and who fill up mingled wine to Destiny , * I will destine you to the sword , and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter . Because when I called , ye did not answer , when I spoke , ye did not hear , but ye did that which was evil in my eyes , and chose that in which I did not deli * Therefore thus says lord LORD , Behold , my servants shall eat , but ye shall be hungry . Behold , my servants shall drink , but ye shall be thirsty . Behold , my servants shall rejoice , but ye shall be put to shame . * Behold , my servants shall sing for joy of heart , but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart , and shall wail for vexation of spirit . * And ye shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen , and lord LORD will kill thee . And he will call his servants by another name , * 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 hid from my eyes . * For , behold , I create new heavens and a new earth , and the former things shall not be remembered , nor come into mind . * But be ye glad and rejoice forever in that which I create . For , behold , I create Jerusalem a rejoicing , and her people a joy . * And I will rejoice in Jerusalem , and joy in my people . And there shall no more be heard in her the voice of weeping and the voice of crying . * There shall be no more there an infant of days , nor an old man who has not filled his days . For the child shall die a hundred years old , and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed . * And they shall build houses , and inhabit them . And they shall plant vineyards , and eat the fruit of them . * They shall not build , and another inhabit . They shall not plant , and another eat . For as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people , and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands . * They shall not labor in vain , nor bring forth for calamity . For they are the seed of the blessed of LORD , and their offspring with them . * And it shall come to pass that , before they call , I will answer , and while they are yet speaking , I will hear . * The wolf and the lamb shall feed together , and 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 LORD .

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