Category: Isaiah

Messiah’s Jubilee

1 The Spirit of the LordGodis on Me,

because theLordhas anointed Me

to bring good news to the poor.

He has sent Me to healthe brokenhearted,

to proclaim liberty to the captives

and freedom to the prisoners;

2 to proclaim the year of theLord’s favor,

and the day of our God’s vengeance;

to comfortall who mourn,

3 to provide for those who mourn in Zion;

to give them a crown of beauty instead of ashes,

festive oil instead of mourning,

and splendid clothes instead of despair.

And they will be called righteous trees,

planted by theLord

to glorify Him.

4 They will rebuild the ancient ruins;

they will restore the former devastations;

they will renew the ruined cities,

the devastations of many generations.

5 Strangers will stand and feed your flocks,

and foreigners will be your plowmen and vinedressers.

6 But you will be called theLord’s priests;

they will speak of you as ministers of our God;

you will eat the wealth of the nations,

and you will boast in their riches.

7 Because your shame was double,

and they cried out, “Disgrace is their portion,”

therefore, they will possess double in their land,

and eternal joy will be theirs.

8 For I Yahweh love justice;

I hate robbery and injustice;

I will faithfully reward them

and make an everlasting covenantwith them.

9 Their descendants will be known among the nations,

and their posterity among the peoples.

All who see them will recognize

that they are a people theLordhas blessed.

10 I greatly rejoice in theLord,

I exult in my God;

for He has clothed me with the garments of salvation

and wrapped me in a robe of righteousness,

as a groom wears a turban

and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.

11 For as the earth produces its growth,

and as a garden enables what is sown to spring up,

so the LordGodwill cause righteousness and praise

to spring up before all the nations.

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Zion’s Restoration

1 I will not keep silent because of Zion,

and I will not keep still because of Jerusalem,

until her righteousness shines like a bright light

and her salvation, like a flaming torch.

2 Nations will see your righteousness

and all kings, your glory.

You will be called by a new name

that theLord’s mouth will announce.

3 You will be a glorious crown in theLord’s hand,

and a royal diadem in the palm of your God.

4 You will no longer be called Deserted,

and your land will not be called Desolate;

instead, you will be called My Delight is in Her,

and your land Married;

for theLorddelights in you,

and your land will be married.

5 For as a young man marries a young woman,

so your sons will marry you;

and as a groom rejoicesover his bride,

so your God will rejoice over you.

6 Jerusalem,

I have appointed watchmen on your walls;

they will never be silent, day or night.

There is no rest for you,

who remind theLord.

7 Do not give Him rest

until He establishes and makes Jerusalem

the praise of the earth.

8 TheLordhas sworn with His right hand

and His strong arm:

I will no longer give your grain

to your enemies for food,

and foreigners will not drink your new wine

you have labored for.

9 For those who gather grain will eat it

and praise theLord,

and those who harvest the grapes will drink the wine

in My holy courts.

10 Go out, go out through the gates;

prepare a way for the people!

Build it up, build up the highway;

clear away the stones!

Raise a banner for the peoples.

11 Look, theLordhas proclaimed

to the ends of the earth,

“Say to Daughter Zion:

Look, your salvation is coming,

His reward is with Him,

and His gifts accompany Him.”

12 And they will be calledthe Holy People,

theLord’s Redeemed;

and you will be called Cared For,

A City Not Deserted.

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The Lord’s Day of Vengeance

1 Who is this coming from Edom

in crimson-stained garments from Bozrah —

this One who is splendid in His apparel,

rising up proudlyin His great might?

It is I, proclaiming vindication,

powerful to save.

2 Why are Your clothes red,

and Your garments like one who treads a winepress?

3 I trampled the winepress alone,

and no one from the nations was with Me.

I trampled them in My anger

and ground them underfoot in My fury;

their blood spattered My garments,

and all My clothes were stained.

4 For I planned the day of vengeance,

and the year of My redemptioncame.

5 I looked, but there was no one to help,

and I was amazed that no one assisted;

so My arm accomplished victory for Me,

and My wrath assisted Me.

6 I crushed nations in My anger;

I made them drunk with My wrath

and poured out their blood on the ground.

Remembrance of Grace

7 I will make known theLord’s faithful love

and theLord’s praiseworthy acts,

because of all theLordhas done for us —

even the many good things

He has done for the house of Israel

and has done for them based on His compassion

and the abundance of His faithful love.

8 He said, “They are indeed My people,

children who will not be disloyal,”

and He became their Savior.

9 In all their suffering, He suffered,

and the Angel of His Presence saved them.

He redeemed them

because of His love and compassion;

He lifted them up and carried them

all the days of the past.

10 But they rebelled

and grieved His Holy Spirit.

So He became their enemy

and fought against them.

11 Then Heremembered the days of the past,

the days of Moses and his people.

Where is He who brought them out of the sea

with the shepherdsof His flock?

Where is He who put His Holy Spirit among the flock?

12 He sent His glorious arm

to be at Moses’ right hand,

divided the waters before them

to obtain eternal fame for Himself,

13 and led them through the depths

like a horse in the wilderness,

so that they did not stumble.

14 Like cattle that go down into the valley,

the Spirit of theLordgave themrest.

You led Your people this way

to make a glorious name for Yourself.

Israel’s Prayer

15 Look down from heaven and see

from Your lofty home — holy and beautiful.

Where is Your zeal and Your might?

Your yearningand Your compassion

are withheld from me.

16 Yet You are our Father,

even though Abraham does not know us

and Israel doesn’t recognize us.

You, Yahweh, are our Father;

from ancient times,

Your name is our Redeemer.

17 Why, Yahweh, do You make us stray from Your ways?

You harden our hearts so we do not fearYou.

Return, because of Your servants,

the tribes of Your heritage.

18 Your holy people had a possession

for a little while,

but our enemies have trampled down

Your sanctuary.

19 We have become like those You never ruled over,

like those not called by Your name.

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1 If only You would tear the heavens open

and come down,

so that mountains would quake at Your presence—

2 as fire kindles the brushwood,

and fire causes water to boil —

to make Your name known to Your enemies,

so that nations will tremble at Your presence!

3 When You did awesome works

that we did not expect,

You came down,

and the mountains quaked at Your presence.

4 From ancient times no one has heard,

no one has listened,

no eye has seen any God except You,

who acts on behalf of the one who waits for Him.

5 You welcome the one who joyfully does what is right;

they remember You in Your ways.

But we have sinned, and You were angry.

How can we be saved if we remain in our sins?

6 All of us have become like something unclean,

and all our righteous acts are like a pollutedgarment;

all of us wither like a leaf,

and our iniquitiescarry us away like the wind.

7 No one calls on Your name,

striving to take hold of You.

For You have hidden Your face from us

and made us melt because ofour iniquity.

8 YetLord, You are our Father;

we are the clay, and You are our potter;

we all are the work of Your hands.

9 Lord, do not be terribly angry

or remember our iniquity forever.

Please look — all of us are Your people!

10 Your holy cities have become a wilderness;

Zion has become a wilderness,

Jerusalem a desolation.

11 Our holy and beautifultemple,

where our fathers praised You,

has been burned with fire,

and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.

12 Lord, after all this, will You restrain Yourself?

Will You keep silent and afflict severely?

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The Lord’s Response

1 “I was sought by those who did not ask;

I was found by those who did not seek Me.

I said: Here I am, here I am,

to a nation that was not called byMy name.

2 I spread out My hands all day long

to a rebellious people

who walk in the wrong path,

following their own thoughts.

3 These people continually provoke Me

to My face,

sacrificing in gardens,

burning incense on bricks,

4 sitting among the graves,

spending nights in secret places,

eating the meat of pigs,

and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself,

don’t come near me, for I am too holy for you! ’

These practices are smoke in My nostrils,

a fire that burns all day long.

6 It is written before Me:

I will not keep silent,but I will repay;

I will repay them fully

7 for your iniquities and the iniquities

of yourfathers together,”

says theLord.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and reproached Me on the hills,

I will reward them fully

for their former deeds.”

8 TheLordsays this:

As the new wine is found in a bunch of grapes,

and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it,

for there’s some goodin it,’

so I will act because of My servants

and not destroy them all.

9 I will produce descendants from Jacob,

and heirs to My mountains from Judah;

My chosenones will possess it,

and My servants will dwell there.

10 Sharon will be a pasture for flocks,

and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie down,

for My people who have sought Me.

11 But you who abandon theLord,

who forget My holy mountain,

who prepare a table for Fortune

and fill bowls of mixed wine for Destiny,

12 I will destine you for the sword,

and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered,

because I called and you did not answer,

I spoke and you did not hear;

you did what was evil in My sight

and chose what I did not delight in.

13 Therefore, this is what the LordGodsays:

My servants will eat,

but you will be hungry;

My servants will drink,

but you will be thirsty;

My servants will rejoice,

but you will be put to shame.

14 My servants will shout for joy from a glad heart,

but you will cry out from an anguished heart,

and you will lament out of a broken spirit.

15 You will leave your name behind

as a curse for My chosen ones,

and the LordGodwill kill you;

but He will give His servants another name.

16 Whoever is blessed in the land

will be blessed by the God of truth,

and whoever swears in the land

will swear by the God of truth.

For the former troubles will be forgotten

and hidden from My sight.

A New Creation

17 “For I will create a new heaven and a new earth;

the past events will not be remembered or come to mind.

18 Then be glad and rejoice forever

in what I am creating;

for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy

and its people to be a delight.

19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem

and be glad in My people.

The sound of weeping and crying

will no longer be heard in her.

20 In her, a nursing infant will no longer live

only a few days,

or an old man not live out his days.

Indeed, the youth will die at a hundred years,

and the one who misses a hundred years will be cursed.

21 People will build houses and live in them;

they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22 They will not build and others live in them;

they will not plant and others eat.

For My people’s lives will be

like the lifetime of a tree.

My chosen ones will fully enjoy

the work of their hands.

23 They will not labor without success

or bear children destined for disaster,

for they will be a people blessed by theLord

along with their descendants.

24 Even before they call, I will answer;

while they are still speaking, I will hear.

25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,

and the lion will eat straw like the ox,

but the serpent’s food will be dust!

They will not do what is evil or destroy

on My entire holy mountain,”

says theLord.

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Final Judgment and Joyous Restoration

1 This is what theLordsays:

Heavenis My throne,

and earth is My footstool.

What house could you possibly build for Me?

And what place could be My home?

2 My hand made all these things,

and so they all came into being.

This is theLord’s declaration.

I will look favorably on this kind of person:

one who is humble,submissivein spirit,

and trembles at My word.

3 One 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.

4 So 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.

5 You who tremble at His word,

hear the word of theLord:

“Your brothers who hate and exclude you

because of Me have said,

‘Let theLordbe glorified

so that we can see your joy! ’

But they will be put to shame.”

6 A sound of uproar from the city!

A voice from the temple —

the voice of theLord,

paying back His enemies what they deserve!

7 Before Zion was in labor, she gave birth;

before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.

8 Who 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 theLord;

“or will I who deliver, close the womb? ”

says your God.

10 Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,

all who love her.

Rejoice greatly with her,

all who mourn over her —

11 so that you may nurse and be satisfied

from her comforting breast

and drink deeply and delight yourselves

from her glorious breasts.

12 For this is what theLordsays:

I will make peace flow to her like a river,

and the wealthof nations like a flood;

you will nurse and be carried on her hip

and bounced on her lap.

13 As a mother comforts her son,

so I will comfort you,

and you will be comforted in Jerusalem.

14 You will see, you will rejoice,

and youwill flourish like grass;

then theLord’s power will be revealed to His servants,

but He will show His wrath against His enemies.

15 Look, theLordwill come with fire—

His chariots are like the whirlwind—

to execute His anger with fury

and His rebuke with flames of fire.

16 For theLordwill execute judgment

on all fleshwith His fiery sword,

and many will be slain by theLord.

17 “Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the grovesfollowing their leader,eating meat from pigs, vermin, and rats, will perish together.”

This is theLord’s declaration.

18 “Knowingtheir works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages;they will come and see My glory.

19 I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from them to the nations — to Tarshish, Put,Lud (who are archers), Tubal, Javan,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.

20 They will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to theLordon horses and chariots, in litters, and on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,”says theLord, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of theLord.

21 I will also take some of them as priests and Levites,”says theLord.

22 “For just as the new heavens and the new earth,

which I will make,

will endure before Me” —

this is theLord’s declaration —

“so your offspring and your name will endure.

23 All mankind will come to worship Me

from one New Moon to another

and from one Sabbath to another,”

says theLord.

24 “As they leave, they will see the dead bodies of the men who have rebelled against Me;for their wormwill never die, their fire will never go out,and they will be a horror to all mankind.”

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