| 1. I allowed Myself to be sought by those who did not ask; I allowed Myself to be found by those who did not seek Me, I said, "Here I am; here I am!" to a nation not called by My name. |
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| 2. I spread out My hands all day to a contrary people, who go in a way that is not good, after their thoughts. |
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| 3. The people who vex Me to My face continually; those who sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on the bricks. |
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| 4. They sit among the graves, and with corpses they lodge; those who eat swine flesh, and broth of abominations is in their vessels. |
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| 5. Those who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me for I am holier than you"; these are smoke in My nostrils, a burning fire all day long. |
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| 6. Behold it is inscribed before Me; I will not remain silent until I have recompensed, and I will recompense onto their bosom. |
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| 7. "Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together," said the Lord, "that they burnt incense on the mountains, and on the hills they blasphemed Me, and I will mete out the recompense for their deed first into their bosom." |
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| 8. So said the Lord, "As when wine is found in the cluster, and one shall say, "Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it"; so will I do for the sake of My servants, not to destroy everything. |
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| 9. And I will extract seed from Jacob and from Judah, the heir of My mountains, and My elect shall inherit it, and My servants shall dwell there. |
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ט. |
| 10. And the Sharon shall become a sheepfold and the Valley of Achor a place for cattle to lie, for My people who sought Me. |
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| 11. You, who forsake the Lord, who forget My holy mount, who set a table for Gad and who fill mingled wine for a number. |
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יא. |
| 12. And I will count you out to the sword, and all of you shall kneel to the slaughter, since I called and you did not reply, I spoke and you did not hearken, and you did what was evil in My eyes, and what I did not desire, you chose. |
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| 13. Therefore, so said the Lord God, "Behold, My servants shall eat, but you shall be hungry; behold, My servants shall drink, but you shall thirst; behold, My servants shall rejoice, but you shall be ashamed. |
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| 14. Behold, My servants shall sing from joy of heart, but you shall cry out from sorrow of heart, and from a broken spirit you shall wail. |
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יד. |
| 15. And you shall leave your name for an oath for My elect, "And the Lord God shall slay you," but to His servants He shall call another name. |
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| 16. For whoever himself on the earth shall bless himself by the true God, and whoever swears on the earth shall swear by the true God, for the first troubles have been forgotten and they have been hidden from My eyes. |
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| 17. For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the first ones shall not be remembered, neither shall they come into mind. |
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יז. |
| 18. But rejoice and exult forever [in] what I create, for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing and its people an exultation. |
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יח. |
| 19. And I will rejoice with Jerusalem, and I will exult with My people, and a sound of weeping or a sound of crying shall no longer be heard therein. |
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יט. |
| 20. There shall no longer be from there a youth or an old man who will not fill his days, for the youth who is one hundred years old shall die, and the sinner who is one hundred years old shall be cursed. |
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| 21. And they shall build houses and inhabit them, and they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. |
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כא. |
| 22. They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat, for like the days of the tree are the days of My people, and My elect shall outlive their handiwork. |
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| 23. They shall not toil in vain, neither shall they bear for terror, for they are seed blessed by the Lord, and their offspring shall be with them. |
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| 24. And it shall be, when they have not yet called, that I will respond; when they are still speaking, that I will hearken. |
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| 25. A wolf and a lamb shall graze together, and a lion, like cattle, shall eat straw, and a serpent-dust shall be his food; they shall neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mount," says the Lord. |
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