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^1 (a)I was ready to be sought by ^(b)those who did not ask for me;
    I was ready to be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, "Here I am, here I am,"
    to a nation that was not called by^[a] my name.
^2 (c)I spread out my hands all the day
    to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
    following their own devices;
³ a people who provoke me
    to my face continually,
^(d)sacrificing in gardens
    and making offerings on bricks;
⁴ who sit in tombs,
    and spend the night in secret places;
^(e)who eat pig's flesh,
    and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;
⁵ who say, "Keep to yourself,
    do not come near me, for I am too holy for you."
^(f)These are a smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that burns all the day.
⁶ Behold, ^(g)it is written before me:
    ^(h)"I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
⁽ⁱ⁾I will indeed repay into their lap
⁷     both your iniquities ^(j)and your fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
^(k)because they made offerings on the mountains
    ^(l)and insulted me on the hills,
I will measure into their lap
    payment for their former deeds."^[b]

⁸ Thus says the Lord:
^(m)"As the new 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,
    ⁽ⁿ⁾and not destroy them all.
^9 (o)I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
    and from Judah possessors of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
    and my servants shall dwell there.
^10 (p)Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
    and ^(q)the Valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down,
    for my people ^(r)who have sought me.
¹¹ But ^(s)you who forsake the Lord,
    who forget ^(t)my holy mountain,
who ^(u)set a table for Fortune
    and ^(v)fill cups of mixed wine for Destiny,
¹² I will destine you to the sword,
    and all of you shall bow down to the slaughter,
^(w)because, when I called, you did not answer;
    when I spoke, you did not listen,
^(x)but you did what was evil in my eyes
    and chose what I did not delight in."

¹³ Therefore thus says the Lord God:
"Behold, ^(y)my servants shall eat,
    but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
    but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
    but you shall be put to shame;
¹⁴ behold, ^(z)my servants shall sing for gladness of heart,
    but you shall cry out for pain of heart
    and shall wail for breaking of spirit.
¹⁵ You shall leave your name to ^(aa)my chosen ^(ab)for a curse,
    and the Lord God will put you to death,
    but his servants ^(ac)he will call by another name,
¹⁶ so that he who ^(ad)blesses himself in the land
    shall bless himself by ^(ae)the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
    shall swear by ^(af)the God of truth;
^(ag)because the former troubles are forgotten
    and are hidden from my eyes.

¹⁷ "For behold, ^(ah)I create new heavens
    and a new earth,
and the former things shall not be remembered
    or come into mind.
¹⁸ But be glad and rejoice forever
    in that which I create;
for behold, ^(ai)I create Jerusalem to be a joy,
    and her people to be a gladness.
^19 (aj)I will rejoice in Jerusalem
    and be glad in my people;
^(ak)no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping
    and the cry of distress.
²⁰ No more shall there be in it
    an infant who lives but a few days,
    or an old man who does not fill out his days,
for ^(al)the young man shall die a hundred years old,
    and ^(am)the sinner a hundred years old shall be accursed.
^21 (an)They shall build houses and inhabit them;
    they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
^22 (ao)They shall not build and another inhabit;
    they shall not plant and another eat;
^(ap)for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be,
    and my chosen shall long enjoy^[c] the work of their hands.
^23 (aq)They shall not labor in vain
    ^(ar)or bear children for calamity,^[d]
for ^(as)they shall be the offspring of the blessed of the Lord,
    and their descendants with them.
^24 (at)Before they call I will answer;
    ^(au)while they are yet speaking I will hear.
^25 (av)The wolf and the lamb shall graze together;
    the lion shall eat straw like the ox,
    and ^(aw)dust shall be the serpent's food.
^(ax)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all my holy mountain,"
says the Lord.