Isaiah 66
66:1Thus says the lord, The heaven is my throne, and the earth a footstool for my feet. What kind of house shall you build to me? and what kind of place for my rest?
66:2For all these things I made by my hand, and all these are mine, says the lord. And upon whom shall I look upon, but only upon the humble and unassuming, and the one trembling at my words?
66:3But the lawless one, the one sacrificing a calf to me is as the one striking a man; and the one sacrificing of the flock is as the one killing a dog; and the one offering fine flour is as the one offering the blood of a pig; the one offering frankincense for a memorial is as blasphemous. And they chose their ways, and their abominations which their soul wanted.
66:4And I will choose their mockeries, and I will recompense their sins against them. For I called them, and they did not hearken to me; I spoke and they heard not; and they acted wickedly before me, and chose that which I did not want.
66:5Hear the word of the lord! O ones trembling at his word. Let your brethren speak to the ones detesting you, and abhorring you, that the name of the lord should be glorified, and should be seen in their gladness, but those shall be ashamed.
66:6A voice of a cry from out of the city; a voice from out of the temple; the voice of the lord recompensing a recompense to the adversaries.
66:7Before her travailing to give birth, before the coming of the misery of the pangs, she fled and gave birth to a male.
66:8Who heard such? and who has seen thus? Has the earth travailed in one day? or even a nation given birth at once, that Zion travailed and gave birth to her children?
66:9But I gave this expectation, and you did not remember me, said the lord. And behold, I made the one bearing and the one sterile, said your God.
66:10Be glad, O Jerusalem, and let all the ones loving her assemble for a festival in her! And the ones dwelling her rejoice in joy, all as many as mourn for her!
66:11that you should nurse and be filled up from the breast of her comfort; that sucking out you should indulge at the introduction of her glory.
66:12For thus says the lord, Behold, I turn aside to them as a river of peace, and as a rushing stream inundating the glory of the nations. Their children shall be carried upon shoulders, and shall be comforted upon knees.
66:13As if any mother shall comfort, so also I shall comfort you; and in Jerusalem you shall be comforted.
66:14And you shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall rise up as pasturage; and the hand of the lord shall be known to the ones fearing him, and he shall threaten the ones resisting persuasion.
66:15For behold the lord shall come as a fire, even as a blast by his chariots, to recompense punishment in rage, and being contemptuously rejected in a flame of fire.
66:16For by the fire of the lord all the earth shall be judged, and by his broadsword all flesh. Many shall be slain by the lord.
66:17The ones purifying themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, and the ones eating the meat of a pig and the abominations and the mouse in the thresholds, together shall be consumed, said the lord.
66:18And I know their works and their device. And I come to bring together all the nations, and the tongues. And they shall come and shall see my glory.
66:19And I will leave upon them a sign. And I will send out from them ones having been delivered unto the nations -- unto Tarshish, and Pul, and Lud, and Meshach, and Tubal, and unto Greece, and unto the islands -- the ones at a distance, the ones who have not heard of my name, nor have seen my glory. And they shall announce my glory among the nations.
66:20And they shall lead your brethren from out of all the nations, as a gift to the lord, with horses, and chariots, in royal chariots drawn by mules with awnings, into the holy city Jerusalem. And the lord said, As the sons of Israel may offer their sacrifices to me with psalms in the house of the lord,
66:21that from them I will take priests and Levites, said the lord.
66:22For in which manner the new heaven and the new earth which I make wait before me, says the lord, so I shall establish your seed, and your name.
66:23And it will be month by month, and Sabbath by Sabbath, all flesh shall come to do obeisance before me in Jerusalem, said the lord.
66:24And they shall go forth, and shall see the carcasses of men, the ones violating against me. For their worm shall not come to an end, and their fire shall not be extinguished. And they will be for a sight to all flesh.