Isaiah 65 (NET)

Isaiah 65:1¹“I made myself available to those who did not ask for me; I appeared to those who did not look for me. I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’ to a nation that did not invoke my name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:20Rom 9:24-261 Pet 2:10Eph 2:12-13Hos 1:10Isa 45:22Ps 22:27Zech 8:22-23Isa 43:1Isa 55:5

Isaiah 65:2²I spread out my hands all day long to my rebellious people, who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable, and who did what they desired.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:21Jer 4:14Prov 1:24Ps 81:11-12Isa 1:2Isa 63:10Jer 5:23Jer 7:24Acts 7:51-52Luke 13:34

Isaiah 65:3³These people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 1:29Deut 32:21Isa 66:172 Kgs 17:14-17Deut 32:16-19Isa 3:8Jer 32:30-35Job 1:112 Kgs 22:17Ezek 20:28

Isaiah 65:4⁴They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 66:17Lev 11:7Deut 14:8Isa 66:3Deut 14:3Deut 18:11Ezek 4:14Luke 8:27Mark 5:2-5Matt 8:28

Isaiah 65:5⁵They say, ‘Keep to yourself! Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’ These people are like smoke in my nostrils, like a fire that keeps burning all day long.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 18:9-12Luke 7:39Prov 16:5Luke 15:28-30Rom 2:17-29Deut 29:20Luke 5:301 Pet 5:5Acts 22:21-22Deut 32:20-22

Isaiah 65:6⁶Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 50:3Jer 16:18Ps 50:21Ps 79:12Isa 42:14Isa 64:12Ezek 22:31Joel 3:4Mal 3:16Rev 20:12

Isaiah 65:7⁷for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” says the Lord. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and offended me on the hills, I will punish them in full measure.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 20:27-28Isa 57:7Exod 20:5Isa 22:14Isa 65:6Jer 13:25Jer 5:29Jer 5:9Jer 7:19-20Lev 26:39

Isaiah 65:8⁸This is what the Lord says: “When juice is discovered in a cluster of grapes, someone says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for it contains juice.’ So I will do for the sake of my servants— I will not destroy everyone.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 9:27-29Amos 9:8-9Isa 6:13Jer 30:11Mark 13:20Rom 11:24-26Rom 11:5-6Joel 2:14Matt 24:22

Isaiah 65:9⁹I will bring forth descendants from Jacob, and from Judah people to take possession of my mountains. My chosen ones will take possession of the land; my servants will live there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:11-15Isa 27:6Rom 11:5-7Ezek 36:24Ezek 36:8-15Ezek 37:21-28Ezek 39:25-29Isa 10:20-22Isa 11:11-16Isa 32:18

Isaiah 65:10¹⁰Sharon will become a pasture for sheep, and the Valley of Achor a place where cattle graze; they will belong to my people, who seek me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:2Isa 33:9Hos 2:15Isa 51:1Ezek 34:13-14Josh 7:24-26

Isaiah 65:11¹¹But as for you who abandon the Lord and forget about worshiping at my holy mountain, who prepare a feast for the god called ‘Fortune,’ and fill up wine jugs for the god called ‘Destiny’ —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:17Isa 1:28Isa 2:21 Cor 10:20-211 Chr 28:9Deut 29:24-25Ezek 23:41-42Heb 12:22Isa 11:9Isa 56:7

Isaiah 65:12¹²I predestine you to die by the sword, all of you will kneel down at the slaughtering block, because I called to you, and you did not respond; I spoke and you did not listen. You did evil before me; you chose to do what displeases me.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 7:132 Chr 36:15-16Isa 50:2Matt 21:34-43Zech 7:11-13Deut 32:25Ezek 14:17-21Isa 1:16Isa 10:4Isa 27:1

Isaiah 65:13¹³So this is what the Sovereign Lord says: “Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry. Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty. Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mal 3:18Isa 66:14Isa 61:7Luke 16:24-25Isa 66:5Isa 44:9Luke 14:23-24Isa 1:19Ps 34:10Ps 37:19-20

Isaiah 65:14¹⁴Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts. But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts; you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 8:12Ps 66:4Isa 24:14Isa 52:8-9Jas 5:1Jas 5:13Jer 31:7Luke 13:28Matt 13:42Matt 22:13

Isaiah 65:15¹⁵Your names will live on in the curse formulas of my chosen ones. The Sovereign Lord will kill you, but he will give his servants another name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 62:2Rom 9:26Acts 11:26Zech 8:13Jer 29:221 Pet 2:9-10Isa 65:22Isa 65:91 Thess 2:16Isa 65:12

Isaiah 65:16¹⁶Whoever pronounces a blessing in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God; whoever makes an oath in the earth will do so in the name of the faithful God. For past problems will be forgotten; I will no longer think about them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 19:18Jer 4:2Heb 6:17-18Phil 2:11Ps 31:5Deut 32:4Isa 45:23-25Isa 65:19John 1:17Rev 20:4

Isaiah 65:17¹⁷For look, I am ready to create new heavens and a new earth! The former ones will not be remembered; no one will think about them anymore.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:2 Pet 3:13Isa 66:22Rev 21:1-5Isa 43:18Jer 3:16Isa 51:16

Isaiah 65:18¹⁸But be happy and rejoice forevermore over what I am about to create! For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem to be a source of joy, and her people to be a source of happiness.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 98:1-9Isa 66:10-14Rev 11:15-18Rev 19:1-6Ps 67:3-51 Thess 5:16Isa 12:4-6Isa 25:9Isa 44:23Isa 49:13

Isaiah 65:19¹⁹Jerusalem will bring me joy, and my people will bring me happiness. The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow will never be heard in her again.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 21:4Isa 25:8Rev 7:17Isa 35:10Jer 32:41Isa 51:11Isa 51:3Isa 60:20Isa 62:4-5Zeph 3:17

Isaiah 65:20²⁰Never again will one of her infants live just a few days or an old man die before his time. Indeed, no one will die before the age of one hundred; anyone who fails to reach the age of one hundred will be considered cursed.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Job 5:26Eccl 8:12-13Deut 4:40Ps 34:12Rom 2:5-9Isa 3:11

Isaiah 65:21²¹They will build houses and live in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 9:14Isa 62:8-9Jer 31:4-5Isa 32:18Isa 37:30Judg 6:1-6Lev 26:16

Isaiah 65:22²²No longer will they build a house only to have another live in it, or plant a vineyard only to have another eat its fruit, for my people will live as long as trees, and my chosen ones will enjoy to the fullest what they have produced.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 92:12-14Ps 91:16Ps 21:4Isa 65:15Isa 65:9Gen 5:27Gen 5:5Lev 26:16

Isaiah 65:23²³They will not work in vain, or give birth to children that will experience disaster. For the Lord will bless their children and their descendants.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:9Jer 32:38-39Deut 28:3-12Acts 2:39Ps 115:14-15Isa 49:4Isa 55:2Rom 9:7-8Gen 12:2Gen 17:7

Isaiah 65:24²⁴Before they even call out, I will respond; while they are still speaking, I will hear.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 10:121 John 5:14-15Mark 11:24Isa 58:9Ps 91:15Ps 50:15Isa 55:6Acts 4:31Acts 10:30-32Dan 9:20-23

Isaiah 65:25²⁵A wolf and a lamb will graze together; a lion, like an ox, will eat straw, and a snake’s food will be dirt. They will no longer injure or destroy on my entire royal mountain,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 11:6-9Mic 4:3Acts 9:19-211 Cor 6:9-11Acts 9:1Ezek 43:11Isa 35:9Isa 65:11Mic 7:17Rev 12:7-9