Isaiah 66
66
Final Judgment and Joyous Restoration
1This is what the Lord says:
Heaven # Ac 7:49-50 is My throne, # Ps 11:4; Mt 5:34-35; 23:22
and earth is My footstool. # 1Ch 28:2; Ps 99:5
What house could you possibly build for Me?
And what place could be My home? # 2Sm 7:5; 1Kg 8:27; Jer 23:24
2My hand made all these things,
and so they all came into being.
This is the Lord’s declaration.
I will look favorably on this kind of person:
one who is humble, # Ps 86:1; Pr 16:19; Mt 11:29 submissive # Lit broken in spirit, # Ps 34:18; Mt 5:3; 1Ti 2:11
and trembles at My word.
3One slaughters an ox, one kills a man;
one sacrifices a lamb, one breaks a dog’s neck;
one offers a grain offering, one offers pig’s blood;
one offers incense, one praises an idol —
all these have chosen their ways
and delight in their detestable practices. # Am 5:21-25
4So I will choose their punishment,
and I will bring on them what they dread
because I called and no one answered;
I spoke and they didn’t hear;
they did what was evil in My sight
and chose what I didn’t delight in. # 2Kg 21:2,6; Is 59:7; 65:12; Jr 7:30
5You who tremble at His word, # Ezr 9:4; 10:3
hear the word of the Lord: # Is 28:14
“Your brothers who hate and exclude you
because of Me have said, # Mt 5:10-12; 10:22; Jn 9:34; 15:18-20
‘Let the Lord be glorified
so that we can see your joy! ’
But they will be put to shame.” # Is 26:11; 44:9; 65:13
6A sound of uproar from the city!
A voice from the temple —
the voice of the Lord,
paying back His enemies what they deserve! # Is 59:18; 65:6; Jl 3:7
7Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;
before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.
8Who has heard of such a thing?
Who has seen such things?
Can a land be born in one day
or a nation be delivered in an instant?
Yet as soon as Zion was in labor,
she gave birth to her sons.
9“Will I bring a baby to the point of birth
and not deliver it? ”
says the Lord;
“or will I who deliver, close the womb? ”
says your God.
10Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
all who love her. # Ps 122:6; 137:6; Is 65:18
Rejoice greatly with her,
all who mourn over her —
11so that you may nurse and be satisfied
from her comforting breast
and drink deeply and delight yourselves
from her glorious breasts.
12For this is what the Lord says:
I will make peace flow to her like a river, # Ps 72:3,7; Is 48:18
and the wealth # Or glory of nations like a flood; # Is 61:6
you will nurse and be carried on her hip # Is 60:4-5
and bounced on her lap.
13As a mother comforts her son,
so I will comfort you, # Ps 86:17; Is 40:1; 49:13; 51:13; 52:9; 2Co 1:3-4
and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.
14You will see, you will rejoice,
and you # Lit your bones will flourish like grass; # Ps 72:16; Pr 11:28; Is 58:11
then the Lord’s power will be revealed to His servants,
but He will show His wrath against His enemies.
15Look, the Lord will come with fire # Is 33:14; Mal 3:1-2; 2Th 1:7-8; 2Pt 3:7 —
His chariots are like the whirlwind # Ps 68:17; Is 5:28; Hab 3:8 —
to execute His anger with fury
and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16For the Lord will execute judgment
on all flesh # Gn 6:12; Jr 12:12; 25:31; Ezk 20:48; 21:4-5 with His fiery sword,
and many will be slain by the Lord.
17“Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves # Is 65:3-5 following their leader, # Hb obscure eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”
This is the Lord’s declaration.
18“Knowing # LXX, Syr; MT omits Knowing their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages; # Is 45:22-25; Jr 3:17 they will come and see My glory. 19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put, # LXX; MT reads Pul Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan, # Gn 10:2,5; 1Kg 10:22; Jr 46:9; Ezk 27:10,13 and the islands far away — who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory. And they will proclaim My glory among the nations. # 1Ch 16:24; Ps 96:3 20They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the Lord on horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” # Ps 2:6; Is 56:7; Ezk 20:40; Jl 3:17 says the Lord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord. 21I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,” # Ex 19:6; Is 61:6; 1Pt 2:5,9; Rv 1:6 says the Lord.
22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth, # Is 65:17; Heb 12:26-27; 2Pt 3:13; Rv 21:1
which I will make,
will endure before Me” —
this is the Lord’s declaration —
“so your offspring and your name will endure.
23All mankind will come to worship Me
from one New Moon to another
and from one Sabbath to another,”
says the Lord.
24“As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me; # Is 1:2; 5:25; 34:3 for their worm # Jb 7:5; Is 14:11 will never die, their fire will never go out, # Mk 9:44-48 and they will be a horror to all mankind.” # Dn 12:2
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Yeshayah (Isaiah) 66
66
1Thus said יהוה, “The heavens are My throne, and the earth is My footstool. Where is this house that you build for Me? And where is this place of My rest?
2“And all these My hand has made, and all these that exist,” declares יהוה. “Yet to such a one I look: on him who is poor and bruised of spirit, and who trembles at My Word.
3"But whoever slays the bull strikes a man; whoever slaughters the lamb breaks a dog’s neck; whoever brings a grain offering – pig’s blood; whoever burns incense blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways, and their being delights in their abominations.
4“I shall also choose their punishments, and bring their fears on them. Because I called, but no one answered. I spoke and they did not hear, and they did evil before My eyes, and chose what was displeasing to Me.”
5Hear the Word of יהוה, you who tremble at His Word, “Your brothers who hate you, who cast you out for My Name’s sake, said, ‘Let יהוה be esteemed, so that we see your joy.’ But they are put to shame.”
6“A roaring sound from the city, a voice from the Hĕḵal, the voice of יהוה, repaying His enemies!
7“Before she laboured, she gave birth; before a pain came to her, she was delivered of a male child.
8“Who has heard the like of this? Who has seen the like of these? Is a land brought forth in one day? Is a nation born at once? For as soon as Tsiyon laboured, she gave birth to her children.
9“Shall I bring to birth, and not give delivery?” says יהוה. “Shall I who give delivery restrain birth?” said your Elohim.
10“Rejoice with Yerushalayim, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice greatly with her, all you who mourn for her;
11so that you feed, and shall be satisfied with the breast of her comforts, so that you drink deeply, and shall delight yourselves in her overflowing esteem.”
12For thus said יהוה, “See, I am extending peace to her like a river, and the esteem of the nations like a flowing stream. And you shall feed; you shall be carried on the side, and be fondled on her knees.
13“As one whom his mother comforts, so I comfort you. And in Yerushalayim you are comforted.”
14“And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones flourish as tender grass. And the hand of יהוה shall be known to His servants, and His displeasure to His enemies.
15“For look, יהוה comes with fire and with His chariots, like a whirlwind, to render His displeasure with burning, and His rebuke with flames of fire.
16“For by fire and by His sword יהוה shall judge all flesh, and the slain of יהוה shall be many –
17those who set themselves apart and cleanse themselves at the gardens after ‘one’ in the midst, eating flesh of pigs#See Isa. 65:4 and the abomination and the mouse, are snatched away, together,” declares יהוה.
18“And I, because of their works and their imaginations, am coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My esteem.
19“And I shall set a sign among them, and shall send some of those who escape to the nations – Tarshish and Pul and Luḏ, who draw the bow, and Tuḇal and Yawan, the coastlands afar off who have not heard My report nor seen My esteem. And they shall declare My esteem among the nations.
20“And they shall bring all your brothers as an offering to יהוה out of all the nations, on horses and in chariots and in litters, on mules and on camels, to My set-apart mountain Yerushalayim,” declares יהוה, “as the children of Yisra’ĕl bring an offering in a clean vessel into the House of יהוה.
21“And from them too I shall take for priests – for Lĕwites,” declares יהוה.
22“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make stand before Me,” declares יהוה, “so your seed and your name shall stand.
23“And it shall be that from New Moon to New Moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath,#Possible meaning: Every week on the Sabbath. all flesh shall come to worship before Me,” declares יהוה.
24“And they shall go forth and look upon the corpses of the men who have transgressed against Me.#See Isa. 24:6; Isa. 34:2, 3; Psa. 110:6; Jer. 25:33 For their worm shall not die, and their fire not be quenched. And they shall be repulsive to all flesh!”
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