Isaiah 65:1–7

Judgment and Salvation

65 “I let myself be sought by those who did not ask;

I let myself be found by those who did not seek me.

I said, ‘Here I am; here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name;

2 I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people,

those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,

3 the people ⌊who provoke⌋a me to anger continually to my face,

slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden,

and making smoke offerings on bricks,

4 ⌊who sit⌋b in graves

and spend the night in ⌊secret places⌋,c

⌊who eat⌋d the flesh of swine

withe a fragmentf of impurity in their vessels,

5 ⌊who say⌋,g “⌊Keep to yourself⌋!h

You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!”

These are a smoke in my ⌊nostrils⌋,i

a fire burning all day.

6 Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay;

and I will repay inj the fold of their garment

7 your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestorsk together, says Yahweh,

because they made smoke offerings on the mountains

and they taunted me on the hills,

I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.”