but you shall be thirsty; behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be disappointed;
065:014 behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but you shall
cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit.
065:015 You shall leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
and the Lord Yahweh will kill you; and he will call his servants
by another name:
065:016 so that he who blesses himself in the earth shall bless himself
in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth shall swear
by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hid from my eyes.
065:017 For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former
things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.
065:018 But be you glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
065:019 I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people;
and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping
and the voice of crying.
065:020 There shall be no more there an infant of days, nor an old
man who has not filled his days; for the child shall die
one hundred years old, and the sinner being one hundred years
old shall be accursed.
065:021 They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall
plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
065:022 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant,
and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days
of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work
of their hands.
065:023 They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity;
for they are the seed of the blessed of Yahweh, and their
offspring with them.
065:024 It shall happen that, before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
065:025 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall
eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent's food.
They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,
says Yahweh.
066:001 Thus says Yahweh, heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool:
what manner of house will you build to me? and what place
shall be my rest?
066:002 For all these things has my hand made, and [so] all these things
came to be, says Yahweh: but to this man will I look,
even to him who is poor and of a contrite spirit, and who
trembles at my word.
066:003 He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices
a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering,
[as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense,
as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways,
and their soul delights in their abominations:
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