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¹ "I have been inquired of by those who did not ask, || I have been found by those who did not seek Me, || I have said, Behold Me, behold Me, || To a nation not calling on My Name.² I have spread out My hands all the day || To an apostate people, || Who are going in the way [that is] not good, || After their own thoughts.³ The people who are continually provoking Me to anger, || To My face, || Sacrificing in gardens, and making incense on the bricks:⁴ Who are dwelling among tombs, || And lodge in reserved places, || Who are eating flesh of the sow, || And a piece of abominations—their vessels.⁵ Who are saying, Keep to yourself, do not come near to me, || For I have declared you unholy. These [are] smoke in My anger, || A fire burning all the day.⁶ Behold, it is written before Me: I am not silent, but have repaid; And I have repaid into their bosom,⁷ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together," said YHWH, "Who have made incense on the mountains, || And have reproached Me on the heights, || And I have measured their former work into their bosom."

⁸ Thus said YHWH: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, || And one has said, Do not destroy it for a blessing [is] in it, || So I do for My servants' sake, || Not to destroy the whole.⁹ And I have brought out a Seed from Jacob, || And from Judah a Possessor of My mountain, || And My chosen ones possess it, || And My servants dwell there.¹⁰ And Sharon has been for the habitation of a flock, || And the Valley of Achor for the lying down of a herd, || For My people who have sought Me.

¹¹ And you [are] those forsaking YHWH, || Who are forgetting My holy mountain, || Who are setting a table in array for Gad, || And who are filling a mixture for Meni.¹² And I have numbered you for the sword, || And all of you bow down for slaughter, || Because I called, and you have not answered, || I have spoken, and you have not listened, || And you do evil in My eyes, || And on that which I did not desire—fixed."¹³ Therefore, thus said Lord YHWH: "Behold, My servants eat, and you hunger, || Behold, My servants drink, and you thirst, || Behold, My servants rejoice, and you are ashamed,¹⁴ Behold, My servants sing from joy of heart, || And you cry from pain of heart, || And you howl from breaking of spirit.¹⁵ And you have left your name || For an oath for My chosen ones, || And Lord YHWH has put you to death, || And He gives another name to His servants;¹⁶ So that he who is blessing himself in the earth, || Blesses himself in the God of faithfulness, || And he who is swearing in the earth, || Swears by the God of faithfulness, || Because the former distresses have been forgotten, || And because they have been hid from My eyes.

¹⁷ For behold, I am creating new heavens and a new earth, || And the former things are not remembered, || Nor do they ascend on the heart.¹⁸ But rejoice, and rejoice forever, that I [am] Creator, || For behold, I am creating Jerusalem [to be] a rejoicing, || And her people a joy.¹⁹ And I have rejoiced in Jerusalem, || And have rejoiced in My people, || And the voice of weeping is not heard in her anymore, and the voice of crying.²⁰ There is not a suckling of [mere] days there anymore, || And an aged man who does not complete his days, || For the youth dies one hundred years old, || And the sinner, one hundred years old, is lightly esteemed.²¹ And they have built houses, and inhabited, || And planted vineyards, and eaten their fruit.²² They do not build, and another inhabit, || They do not plant, and another eat, || For as the days of a tree [are] the days of My people, || And My chosen wear out the work of their hands.²³ They do not labor for a vain thing, || Nor do they bring forth for trouble, || For they [are] the seed of the blessed of YHWH, || And their offspring with them.²⁴ And it has come to pass, || They do not yet call, and I answer, || They are yet speaking, and I hear.²⁵ Wolf and lamb feed as one, || And a lion eats straw as an ox, || As for the serpent—its food [is] dust, || They do no evil, nor destroy, || In all My holy mountain," said YHWH!