Isaiah 62 - 66 — Legacy Standard Bible

Zion’s Glory and New Name

62For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent,And for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet,Until her ^arighteousness goes forth like brightness,And her ^bsalvation like a torch that is burning.²The ^anations will see your righteousness,And all kings your glory;And you will be called by a new ^bnameWhich the mouth of Yahweh will designate.³You will also be a ^acrown of glory in the hand of Yahweh,And a turban of royalty in the hand of your God.⁴It will no longer be said to you, “¹^,^aForsaken,”Nor to your land will it any longer be said, “²Desolate”;But you will be called, “³My delight is in her,”And your land, “⁴^,^bMarried”;For ^cYahweh takes pleasure in you,And to Him your land will be married.⁵For as a young man marries a virgin,So your sons will marry you;And as the ¹bridegroom rejoices over the bride,So your ^aGod will rejoice over you.⁶On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed ^awatchmen;All day and all night they will never keep silent.You who ^bremind Yahweh, take no rest for yourselves;⁷And ^agive Him no rest until He establishesAnd sets ^bJerusalem as a praise in the earth.⁸^aYahweh has sworn by His right hand and by His strong arm,“I will ^bnever again give your grain as food for your enemies;Nor will ¹foreigners drink your new wine for which you have labored.”⁹But those who ^acollect it will eat it and praise Yahweh;And those who gather it will drink it in the courts of My sanctuary.¹⁰Go through, ^ago through the gates,Clear the way ¹for the people;^bBuild up, build up the ^chighway,Remove the stones, raise up a ^dstandard over the peoples.¹¹Behold, Yahweh has ¹announced to the ^aend of the earth,^bSay to the daughter of Zion, “Behold, your ^csalvation comes;^dBehold, His reward is with Him, and His recompense before Him.”¹²And they will call them, “^aThe holy people,The ^bredeemed of Yahweh”;And you will be called, “Sought out, a city ^cnot forsaken.”

Vengeance of Yahweh

63Who is this who comes from ^aEdom,With ^bgarments of ¹glowing colors from ^cBozrah,This One who is majestic in His clothing,²Marching in the greatness of His power?“It is I who speak in righteousness, ^dmighty to save.”²Why is Your clothing red,And Your garments like the one who ^atreads in the wine press?³“^aI have trodden the wine trough alone,And from the peoples there was no man with Me.I also ^btrod them in My angerAnd ^ctrampled them in My wrath;And ^dtheir ¹lifeblood is sprinkled on My garments,And I ²stained all My clothes.⁴“For the ^aday of vengeance was in My heart,And My year of redemption has come.⁵“I looked, and there was ^ano one to help,And I was astonished, and there was no one to uphold;So My ^bown arm brought salvation to Me,And My wrath upheld Me.⁶“I ^atrod down the peoples in My angerAnd made them ^bdrunk in My wrath,And I brought down their lifeblood to the earth.”

Remember the Lovingkindness of Yahweh

⁷I shall bring to remembrance the ^alovingkindnesses of Yahweh, the praises of Yahweh,According to all the ways that Yahweh has dealt bountifully with us,And the abundant ^bgoodness toward the house of Israel,Which He has dealt bountifully to them according to His ^ccompassionAnd according to the abundance of His lovingkindnesses.⁸And He said, “Surely, they are ^aMy people,Sons who will not deal falsely.”So He became their ^bSavior.⁹In all their distress ¹^,^aHe was distressed,And the ^bangel of His presence saved them;In His ^clove and in His mercy He ^dredeemed them,And He ^elifted them and carried them all the ancient days.¹⁰But they ^arebelledAnd grieved His ^bHoly Spirit;Therefore He turned Himself to become their enemy;He fought against them.¹¹Then ^aHis people remembered the ancient days, of Moses.Where is ^bHe who brought them up out of the sea with the ¹shepherds of His flock?Where is He who ^cput His Holy Spirit in the midst of ²them,¹²Who caused His ^aglorious arm to go at the right hand of Moses,Who ^bsplit the waters before them to make for Himself an everlasting name,¹³Who led them through the depths?Like the horse in the wilderness, they did not ^astumble;¹⁴As the cattle which go down into the valley,The Spirit of ^aYahweh gave ¹them rest.So You ^bled Your people,To make for Yourself a glorious name.

Prayer for Mercy and Help

¹⁵^aLook down from heaven and see from Your holy and glorious ^bhabitation;Where are Your ^czeal and Your mighty deeds?The ^dtumults within You and Your compassion are restrained toward me.¹⁶For You are our ^aFather, though ^bAbraham does not know usAnd Israel does not recognize us.You, O Yahweh, are our Father,Our ^cRedeemer from everlasting is Your name.¹⁷Why, O Yahweh, do You ^acause us to stray from Your waysAnd ^bstiffen our heart from fearing You?^cReturn for the sake of Your slaves, the tribes of Your inheritance.¹⁸Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while;Our adversaries have ^atrodden it down.¹⁹We have become like those over whom You have never ruled,Like those who were not called by Your name.64¹Oh, that You would rend the heavens and ^acome down,That the mountains might ^bquake at Your presence—²¹As fire kindles the brushwood, as fire causes water to boil—To make Your name known to Your adversaries,That the ^anations may tremble at Your presence!³When You did ^aawesome things for which we did not hope,You came down; the mountains quaked at Your presence.⁴For from ancient times ^athey have not heard or given ear,Nor has the eye seen a God besides You,Who acts in behalf of the one who ^bwaits for Him.⁵You ^ameet him who rejoices and ^bdoes righteousness,Who ^cremembers You in Your ways.Behold, ^dYou were angry; indeed we have sinned—We continued in them a long time—And shall we be saved?⁶For all of us have become like one who is ^aunclean,And all our ^brighteous deeds are like a filthy garment;And all of us ^cwither like a leaf,And our ^diniquities, like the wind, carry us away.⁷There is ^ano one who calls on Your name,Who awakens himself to take hold of You,For You have ^bhidden Your face from usAnd have ¹melted us into the hand of our iniquities.⁸But now, O Yahweh, ^aYou are our Father;We are the ^bclay, and You our potter;And all of us are the ^cwork of Your hand.⁹Do not be ^aangry beyond measure, O Yahweh,^bNor remember iniquity forever;Behold, look now, all of us are ^cYour people.¹⁰Your ^aholy cities have become a ^bwilderness;Zion has become a wilderness,Jerusalem a desolation.¹¹Our holy and glorious ^ahouse,Where our fathers praised You,Has been burned by fire;And ^ball our precious things have become a waste place.¹²Will You ^arestrain Yourself at these things, O Yahweh?Will You keep silent and afflict us beyond measure?

Judgment and Salvation

65“I permitted Myself to be sought by ^athose who did not ask for Me;I permitted Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me.I said, ‘Here am I, here am I,’To a nation which ^bdid not call on My name.²“^aI have spread out My hands all day long to a ^brebellious people,Who walk in the way which is not good, ¹following their own ^cthoughts,³A people who continually ^aprovoke Me to My face,Offering sacrifices in ^bgardens and ^cburning incense on bricks,⁴Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places,Who ^aeat swine’s flesh,And the broth of offensive meat is in their pots,⁵Who say, ‘^aKeep to yourself, do not come near me,For I am holier than you!’These are smoke in My ¹nostrils,A fire that burns all the day.⁶“Behold, it is written before Me:I will ^anot keep silent, but ^bI will repay;I will even repay into their bosom,⁷Both ¹their own ^ainiquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says Yahweh.“Because they have ^bburned incense on the mountainsAnd ^creproached Me on the hills,Therefore I will ^dmeasure their former work into their bosom.”

⁸Thus says Yahweh, “As the new wine is found in the cluster,And one says, ‘Do not make it a ruin, for there is ¹benefit in it,’So I will act on behalf of My slavesIn order ^anot to make ²all of them a ruin.

⁹“I will bring forth a ^aseed from Jacob,And a ^bpossessor of My mountains from Judah;Even ^cMy chosen ones shall possess it,And ^dMy slaves will dwell there.¹⁰“^aSharon will be a pasture land for flocks,And the ^bvalley of Achor a resting place for herds,For My people who ^cseek Me.¹¹“But you who ^aforsake Yahweh,Who forget My ^bholy mountain,Who set a table for ¹Fortune,And who fill cups with mixed wine for ²Destiny,¹²I will destine you for the ^asword,And all of you will bow down to the ^bslaughter,Because I called, but you ^cdid not answer;I spoke, but you did not hear.And you did what was evil in My eyesAnd chose that in which I was not pleased.”

¹³Therefore, thus says Lord Yahweh, “Behold, My slaves will ^aeat, but you will be ^bhungry.Behold, My slaves will ^cdrink, but you will be ^dthirsty.Behold, My slaves will ^ebe glad, but you will be ^fput to shame.

¹⁴“Behold, My slaves will ^ashout joyfully with a merry heart,But you will ^bcry out with a pained heart,And you will wail with a broken spirit.¹⁵“You will leave your name for a ¹^,^acurse to My chosen ones,And Lord Yahweh will put you to death.But ²My slaves will be called by ^banother name,¹⁶Because he who ¹is blessed in the earthWill ²be blessed by the ^aGod of truth,And he who swears in the earthWill ^bswear by the God of truth;Because the former distresses are forgotten,And because they are hidden from My sight!

New Heavens and a New Earth

¹⁷“For behold, I am creating a ^anew heavens and a new earth;And the ^bformer things will not be remembered or come upon the heart.¹⁸“But be ^ajoyful and rejoice forever in what I create;For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicingAnd her people for joy.¹⁹“I will also ^arejoice in Jerusalem and be joyful in My people;And there will no longer be heard in herThe voice of ^bweeping and the voice of crying.²⁰“No longer will there be ¹in it an infant who lives but a few days,Or an old man who does ^anot fulfill his days;For the youth will die at the age of one hundred,And the ²^,^bone who does not reach the age of one hundredWill be thought accursed.²¹“They will ^abuild houses and inhabit them;They will also ^bplant vineyards and eat their fruit.²²“They will not build and ^aanother inhabit;They will not plant and another eat;For ^bas the ¹lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,And My chosen ones will ^cwear out the work of their hands.²³“They will ^anot labor in vain,Or bear children for terror;For they are the ^bseed of those blessed by Yahweh,And their offspring with them.

²⁴“And it will be that before they call, I will ^aanswer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear. ²⁵“The ^awolf and the lamb will graze together, and the ^blion will eat straw like the ox; and ^cdust will be the serpent’s food. They will ^ddo no evil nor act corruptly in all My ^eholy mountain,” says Yahweh.

Heaven Is Yahweh’s Throne

66Thus says Yahweh, “^aHeaven is My throne, and the earth is the footstool of My feet.Where then is a ^bhouse you could build for Me?And where is a place that ¹I may rest?

²“For ^aMy hand made all these things,Thus all these things came into being,” declares Yahweh.“But to this one I will look,To him who is humble and ^bcontrite of spirit, and who ^ctrembles at My word.³“But he who slaughters an ox is the one who strikes down a man;He who sacrifices a lamb is the one who breaks a dog’s neck;He who offers a grain offering is the one who offers ^aswine’s blood;He who ^boffers a memorial offering of frankincense is the one who blesses wickedness.As they have chosen their ^cown ways,And their soul takes pleasure in their ^ddetestable things,⁴So I will ^achoose their ¹punishmentsAnd will ^bbring on them what they dread,Because I called, but ^cno one answered;I spoke, but they did not listen.And they did what was ^devil in My eyesAnd chose that in which I did not take pleasure.”⁵Hear the word of Yahweh, you who ^atremble at His word:“Your brothers who ^bhate you, who ^cexclude you for My name’s sake,Have said, ‘Let Yahweh be glorified, that we may see your gladness.’But ^dthey will be put to shame.⁶“A voice of rumbling from the city, a voice from the temple,The voice of Yahweh who is ^apaying recompense to His enemies.⁷“Before she was in labor pains, ^ashe gave birth;Before her pangs came, ^bshe delivered a male child.⁸“^aWho has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things?Can a land be ¹brought forth through labor pains in one day?Can a nation be born all at once?As soon as Zion was in labor pains, she also gave birth to her sons.⁹“Shall I bring to the point of breaking forth and ^anot cause birth?” says Yahweh.“Or shall I who causes birth shut the womb?” says your God.

Joy in Jerusalem’s Future

¹⁰“Be ^aglad with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who ^blove her;Be exceedingly ^cjoyful with her, all you who mourn over her,¹¹That you may nurse and ^abe satisfied with her comforting breasts,That you may suck and be delighted with her ^bbountiful bosom.”¹²For thus says Yahweh, “Behold, I stretch out ^apeace to her like a river,And the ^bglory of the nations like an overflowing stream;And you will ¹be nursed; you will be ^ccarried on the ²hip and played with on the knees.¹³“As one whom his mother comforts, so I will ^acomfort you;And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”¹⁴Then you will ^asee this, and your ^bheart will be joyful,And your ^cbones will flourish like the new grass;And the ^dhand of Yahweh will be made known to His slaves,But He will be ^eindignant toward His enemies.¹⁵For behold, Yahweh will come in ^afireAnd His ^bchariots like the whirlwind,To return His anger with wrath,And His rebuke with flames of fire.¹⁶For Yahweh will execute judgment by ^afireAnd by His ^bsword on all flesh,And those slain by Yahweh will be many.¹⁷“Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the ^agardens,¹Following one in the center,Who eat ^bswine’s flesh, detestable things, and mice,Will ^ccome to an end altogether,” declares Yahweh.

¹⁸“And I ¹know their works and their ^athoughts; ²the time is coming to ^bgather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. ¹⁹“I will set a ^asign among them and will send those who have escaped from them to the nations: ^bTarshish, ¹Put, ^cLud, ²Meshech, ^dTubal, and ³Javan, to the distant ^ecoastlands that have neither heard My report nor seen My glory. And they will ^fdeclare My glory among the nations. ²⁰“Then they shall ^abring all your brothers from all the nations as a grain offering to Yahweh, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules, and on camels, to My ^bholy mountain Jerusalem,” says Yahweh, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a ^cclean vessel to the house of Yahweh. ²¹“I will also take some of them for ^apriests and for Levites,” says Yahweh.

²²“For just as the ^anew heavens and the new earthWhich I make will endure before Me,” declares Yahweh,“So your ^bseed and your ^cname will endure.²³“And it shall be from ^anew moon to new moonAnd from sabbath to sabbath,All ¹mankind will come to ^bworship before Me,” says Yahweh.²⁴“Then they will go forth and lookOn the ^acorpses of the menWho have ¹^,^btransgressed against Me.For their ^cworm will not die^dAnd their fire will not be quenched;And they will be an object of ^econtempt to all ²mankind.”