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Isaiah 66
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66GOD's Message: "Heaven's my throne, earth is my footstool. What sort of house could you build for me? What holiday spot reserve for me?H559H3068H8064H3678H776H7272H1916H1004H1129H4725H4496 2I made all this! I own all this!" GOD's Decree. "But there is something I'm looking for: a person simple and plain, reverently responsive to what I say.H3027H6213H5002H3068H5027H6041H5223H7307H2730H1697 3"Your acts of worship are acts of sin: Your sacrificial slaughter of the ox is no different from murdering the neighbor; Your offerings for worship, no different from dumping pig's blood on the altar; Your presentation of memorial gifts, no different from honoring a no-god idol. You choose self-serving worship, you delight in self-centered worship—disgusting!H7819H7794H5221H376H2076H7716H6202H3611H6202H5927H4503H2386H1818H2142H3828H1288H205H977H1870H5315H2654H8251 4Well, I choose to expose your nonsense and let you realize your worst fears, Because when I invited you, you ignored me; when I spoke to you, you brushed me off. You did the very things I exposed as evil, you chose what I hate."H977H8586H935H4035H7121H6030H1696H8085H6213H7451H5869H977H2654 5But listen to what GOD has to say to you who reverently respond to his Word: "Your own families hate you and turn you out because of me. They taunt you, 'Let us see GOD's glory! If God's so great, why aren't you happy?' But they're the ones who are going to end up shamed."H8085H1697H3068H2730H1697H251H8130H5077H8034H559H3068H3513H7200H8057H954 6Rumbles of thunder from the city! A voice out of the Temple! GOD's voice, handing out judgment to his enemies:H6963H7588H5892H6963H1964H6963H3068H7999H1576H341 7"Before she went into labor, she had the baby. Before the birth pangs hit, she delivered a son.H2342H3205H2256H935H4422H2145 8Has anyone ever heard of such a thing? Has anyone seen anything like this? A country born in a day? A nation born in a flash? But Zion was barely in labor when she had her babies!H8085H7200H776H2342H259H3117H1471H3205H6471H1571H6726H2342H3205H1121 9Do I open the womb and not deliver the baby? Do I, the One who delivers babies, shut the womb?H7665H3205H559H3068H589H3205H6113H559H430 10"Rejoice, Jerusalem, and all who love her, celebrate! And all you who have shed tears over her, join in the happy singing.H8055H3389H1523H157H7797H4885H56 11You newborns can satisfy yourselves at her nurturing breasts. Yes, delight yourselves and drink your fill at her ample bosom."H3243H7646H7699H8575H4711H6026H2123H3519 12GOD's Message: "I'll pour robust well-being into her like a river, the glory of nations like a river in flood. You'll nurse at her breasts, nestle in her bosom, and be bounced on her knees.H559H3068H5186H7965H5104H3519H1471H7857H5158H3243H5375H6654H8173H1290 13As a mother comforts her child, so I'll comfort you. You will be comforted in Jerusalem."H376H517H5162H5162H5162H3389 14You'll see all this and burst with joy —you'll feel ten feet tall— As it becomes apparent that GOD is on your side and against his enemies.H7200H3820H7797H6106H6524H1877H3027H3068H3045H5650H2194H341 15For GOD arrives like wildfire and his chariots like a tornado, A furious outburst of anger, a rebuke fierce and fiery.H3068H935H784H4818H5492H7725H639H2534H1606H3851H784 16For it's by fire that GOD brings judgment, a death sentence on the human race. Many, oh so many, are under GOD's sentence of death:H784H2719H3068H8199H1320H2491H3068H7231 17"All who enter the sacred groves for initiation in those unholy rituals that climaxed in that foul and obscene meal of pigs and mice will eat together and then die together." GOD's Decree.H6942H2891H1593H310H259H8432H398H2386H1320H8263H5909H5486H3162H5002H3068 18"I know everything they've ever done or thought. I'm going to come and then gather everyone—all nations, all languages. They'll come and see my glory.H4639H4284H935H6908H1471H3956H935H7200H3519 19I'll set up a station at the center. I'll send the survivors of judgment all over the world: Spain and Africa, Turkey and Greece, and the far-off islands that have never heard of me, who know nothing of what I've done nor who I am. I'll send them out as missionaries to preach my glory among the nations.H7760H226H7971H6412H1471H8659H6322H3865H4900H7198H8422H3120H339H7350H8085H8088H7200H3519H5046H3519H1471 20They'll return with all your long-lost brothers and sisters from all over the world. They'll bring them back and offer them in living worship to GOD. They'll bring them on horses and wagons and carts, on mules and camels, straight to my holy mountain Jerusalem," says GOD. "They'll present them just as Israelites present their offerings in a ceremonial vessel in the Temple of GOD.H935H251H4503H3068H1471H5483H7393H6632H6505H3753H6944H2022H3389H559H3068H1121H3478H935H4503H2889H3627H1004H3068 21I'll even take some of them and make them priests and Levites," says GOD.H3947H3548H3881H559H3068 22"For just as the new heavens and new earth that I am making will stand firm before me" —GOD's Decree— "So will your children and your reputation stand firm.H2319H8064H2319H776H6213H5975H6440H5002H3068H2233H8034H5975 23Month after month and week by week, everyone will come to worship me," GOD says.H1767H2320H2320H1767H7676H7676H1320H935H7812H6440H559H3068 24"And then they'll go out and look at what happened to those who rebelled against me. Corpses! Maggots endlessly eating away on them, an endless supply of fuel for fires. Everyone who sees what's happened and smells the stench retches."H3318H7200H6297H582H6586H8438H4191H784H3518H1860H1320


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