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Isaiah 65:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I will destine you for the sword, and all of you will kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not hear; you did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.’

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Now, because you have done all these things #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #and because I have spoken to you time and time again  but you wouldn’t listen,  and I have called to you, but you wouldn’t answer,


Why was no one there when I came? Why was there no one to answer when I called? Is my arm too weak to redeem? Or do I have no power to rescue? Look, I dry up the sea by my rebuke; I turn the rivers into a wilderness; their fish rot because of lack of water and die of thirst.


He came to his own, and his own people did not receive him.


The king   was enraged, and he sent out his troops, killed those murderers, and burned down their city.


He sent his servants to summon those invited to the banquet,   but they didn’t want to come.


Aren’t these the words that the Lord proclaimed through the earlier prophets when Jerusalem was inhabited and secure,  along with its surrounding cities, and when the southern region and the Judean foothills were inhabited? ’


‘Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming freedom, each for his fellow Hebrew and for his neighbour.  I hereby proclaim freedom for you   #– #this is the Lord’s declaration #– #to the sword, to plague, and to famine! I will make you a horror to all the earth’s kingdoms.


Therefore, hand their children over to famine, and give them over to the power of the sword. Let their wives become childless and widowed, their husbands slain by deadly disease, their young men struck down by the sword in battle.


for my gaze takes in all their ways.  They are not concealed from me, and their iniquity is not hidden from my sight.


These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,


When I look, there is no one; there is no counsellor among them; when I ask them, they have nothing to say.


On that day the Lord with his relentless, large, strong sword will bring judgement on Leviathan,  the fleeing serpent #– #Leviathan, the twisting serpent. He will slay the monster that is in the sea.


There will be nothing to do except crouch among the prisoners or fall among the slain. In all this, his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still raised to strike.


Your men will fall by the sword, your warriors in battle.


‘Wash yourselves. Cleanse yourselves. Remove your evil deeds from my sight. Stop doing evil.


Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, there will be terror; the young man and the young woman will be killed, the infant and the grey-haired man.


I will bring a sword against you  to execute the vengeance of the covenant. Though you withdraw into your cities, I will send a pestilence among you, and you will be delivered into enemy hands.


But if you refuse and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.’ For the mouth of the  Lord has spoken.


The Lord is angry with all the nations, furious with all their armies. He will set them apart for destruction, giving them over to slaughter.


When my sword has drunk its fill  , in the heavens, it will then come down on Edom and on the people I have set apart for destruction.


The Lord’s sword is covered with blood. It drips with fat, with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams. For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah, a great slaughter in the land of Edom.


I crushed nations in my anger; I made them drunk with my wrath and poured out their blood on the ground.


For the Lord will execute judgement on all humanity  with his fiery sword, and many will be slain by the  Lord.


‘When you speak all these things to them, they will not listen to you. When you call to them, they will not answer you.


Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Armies, the God of Israel, says: I will certainly bring on Judah and on all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them because I have spoken to them, but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them, but they did not answer.” ’


I will take vengeance in anger and wrath against the nations that have not obeyed me.


Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil is plundered. The Lord saw that there was no justice, and he was offended.





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