Isaiah 65:1–9

¹I was ready to be sought by those who did not ask for me;

I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.

I said, “Here am I, here am I,”

to a nation that did not call on my name.

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

who walk in a way that is not good,

following their own devices;

³a people who provoke me

to my face continually,

sacrificing in gardens

and burning incense upon bricks;

⁴who sit in tombs,

and spend the night in secret places;

who eat swine’s flesh,

and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

⁵who say, “Keep to yourself,

do not come near me, for I am set apart from you.”

These are a smoke in my nostrils,

a fire that burns all the day.

⁶Behold, it is written before me:

“I will not keep silent, but I will repay,

yea, I will repay into their bosom

⁷their iniquities and their fathers’ iniquities together,

says the Lord;

because they burned incense upon the mountains

and reviled me upon the hills,

I will measure into their bosom

payment for their former doings.”

⁸Thus says the Lord:

“As the wine is found in the cluster,

and they say, ‘Do not destroy it,

for there is a blessing in it,’

so I will do for my servants’ sake,

and not destroy them all.

⁹I will bring forth descendants from Jacob,

and from Judah inheritors of my mountains;

my chosen shall inherit it,

and my servants shall dwell there.