65I WAS [ready to be] inquired of by those who asked not; I was [ready to be] found by those who sought Me not. I said, Here I am, here I am [says I AM] to a nation [Israel] that has not called on My name.H1875H7592H3808H4672H1245H3808H559H1471H7121H8034

2I have spread out My hands all the day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts--H6566H3027H3117H5637H5971H1980H1870H2896H310H4284

3A people who provoke Me to My face continually, sacrificing [to idols] in gardens and burning incense upon bricks [instead of at God's prescribed altar];H5971H3707H8548H6440H2076H1593H6999H3843

4Who sit among the graves [trying to talk with the dead] and lodge among the secret places [or caves where familiar spirits were thought to dwell]; who eat swine's flesh, and the broth of abominable {and} loathsome things is in their vessels;H3427H6913H3885H5341H398H2386H1320H4839H6564H6292H3627

5Who say, Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am set apart from you [and lest I sanctify you]! These are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.H559H7126H5066H6942H6227H639H784H3344H3117

6Behold, it is written before Me: I will not keep silence but will repay; yes, I will repay into their bosomH3789H6440H2814H7999H7999H2436

7Both your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers, says the Lord. Because they too burned incense upon the mountains and reviled {and} blasphemed Me upon the hills, therefore will I measure {and} stretch out their former doings into their own bosom.H5771H5771H1H3162H559H3068H6999H2022H2778H1389H4058H7223H6468H2436

8Thus says the Lord: As the juice [of the grape] is found in the cluster, and one says, Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it, so will I do for My servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.H559H3068H8492H4672H811H559H7843H1293H6213H5650H7843

9And I will bring forth an offspring from Jacob, and from Judah an inheritor of My mountains; My chosen {and} elect will inherit it, and My servants will dwell there.H3318H2233H3290H3063H3423H2022H972H3423H5650H7931

10And [the plain of] Sharon shall be a pasture {and} fold for flocks, and the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down, for My people who seek Me, inquire of Me, {and} require Me [by right of their necessity and by right of My invitation].H8289H5116H6629H6010H5911H1241H7258H5971H1875

11But you who forsake the Lord, who forget {and} ignore My holy Mount [Zion], who prepare a table for Gad [the Babylonian god of fortune] and who furnish mixed drinks for Meni [the god of destiny]--H5800H3068H7913H6944H2022H6186H7979H1409H1408H4390H4469H4507

12I will destine you [says the Lord] for the sword, and you shall all bow down to the slaughter, because when I called, you did not answer; when I spoke, you did not listen {or} obey. But you did what was evil in My eyes, and you chose that in which I did not delight.H4487H2719H3766H2874H7121H6030H1696H8085H6213H7451H5869H977H2654

13Therefore thus says the Lord God: Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall be thirsty; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be put to shame.H559H136H3069H5650H398H7456H5650H8354H6770H5650H8055H954

14Behold, My servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall cry out for pain {and} sorrow of heart and shall wail {and} howl for anguish, vexation, {and} breaking of spirit.H5650H7442H2898H3820H6817H3511H3820H3213H7667H7307

15And you will leave your name to My chosen [to those who will use it] for a curse; and the Lord God will slay you, but He will call His servants by another name [as much greater than the former name as the name Israel was greater than the name Jacob].H3240H8034H7621H972H136H3069H4191H7121H5650H312H8034

16So [it shall be] that he who invokes a blessing on himself in the land shall do so by saying, May the God of truth {and} fidelity [the Amen] bless me; and he who takes an oath in the land shall swear by the God of truth {and} faithfulness to His promises [the Amen], because the former troubles are forgotten and because they are hidden from My eyes.H1288H776H1288H430H543H7650H776H7650H430H543H7223H6869H7911H5641H5869

17For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth. And the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.H1254H2319H8064H2319H776H7223H2142H5927H3820

18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create; for behold, I create Jerusalem to be a rejoicing and her people a joy.H7797H1523H5703H1254H1254H3389H1525H5971H4885

19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people; and the sound of weeping will no more be heard in it, nor the cry of distress.H1523H3389H7797H5971H6963H1065H8085H6963H2201

20There shall no more be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an old man who dies prematurely; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies when only a hundred years old shall be [thought only a child, cut off because he is] accursed.H5764H3117H2205H4390H3117H5288H4191H3967H8141H1121H2398H3967H8141H1121H7043

21They shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat the fruit of them.H1129H1004H3427H5193H3754H398H6529

22They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat [the fruit]. For as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of My people, and My chosen {and} elect shall long make use of {and} enjoy the work of their hands.H1129H312H3427H5193H312H398H3117H6086H3117H5971H972H1086H4639H3027

23They shall not labor in vain or bring forth [children] for sudden terror {or} calamity; for they shall be the descendants of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.H3021H7385H3205H928H2233H1288H3068H6631

24And it shall be that before they call I will answer; and while they are yet speaking I will hear.H7121H6030H1696H8085

25The 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 or destroy in all My holy Mount [Zion], says the Lord.H2061H2924H7462H259H738H398H8401H1241H6083H5175H3899H7489H7843H6944H2022H559H3068