Isaiah 65 from Scroll 1Q Isaiaha
1 “I
am inquired of by those who didn’t ask.
I am found by those who didn’t seek me.
I
said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not
called by my name.
2 I
have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not
good,
after
their own thoughts;
3 a
people who provoke me to my face continually,
They are sacrificing in
gardens,
and burning incense waving
hands on bricks stones;
4 who sit among the graves,
and
spend nights in secret places;
who eat pig’s meat,
and
broth of abominable things is in their vessels;
5 who say, ‘Stay by
yourself,
don’t
come near to me,
for I am holier than you.’
These
are smoke in my nose,
a
fire that burns all day.
6 “Behold,
it is written before me:
I
will not keep silence,
but will repay,
yes,
I will repay into their bosom,
7 your own iniquities,
and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,
“who
have burned incense on the mountains,
and
blasphemed me on the hills.
Therefore I will first measure their work
into their bosom.”
8 Yahweh
says,
“As
the new wine is found in the cluster,
and one says, ‘Don’t destroy
it, for a blessing is in it:’
so I
will do for my servants’ sake,
that
I may not destroy them all.
9 I will bring offspring out
of Jacob,
and
out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.
My
chosen will inherit it,
and
my servants will dwell there.
10 Sharon
will be a fold of flocks,
and
the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down
in,
for
my people who have sought me.
11 “But you who forsake Yahweh,
who
forget my holy mountain,
who prepare a table for Fortune,
and who fill up mixed wine
to Destiny;
12 I
will destine you to the sword,
and you will all bow down to
the slaughter;
because
when I called, you didn’t answer.
When
I spoke, you didn’t listen;
but
you did that which was evil in my eyes,
and chose that in which I
didn’t delight.”
13 Therefore thus says the Lord
Yahweh,
“Behold,
my servants will eat,
but you will be hungry;
behold,
my servants will drink,
but you will be thirsty.
Behold,
my servants will rejoice,
but you will be disappointed;
14 Behold,
my servants will sing for joy of heart,
but you will cry for sorrow
of heart,
and will wail for
anguish of spirit.
15 You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen;
and the Lord Yahweh will
kill you continually.
He will call his servants by another name,
16 so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in And it will be that the he who swears by the God of truth;
and
he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of
truth;
because the former
troubles are forgotten,
and because they are hidden from my eyes.
17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
and the former
things will not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I
create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem
to be a delight,
and
her people a joy.
19 I will
rejoice in Jerusalem,
and
delight in my people;
and
the voice of weeping and the voice of crying
will
be heard in her no more.
20 “No more will there
be an infant who only lives a few days,
nor an old man who has
not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
and
the sinner being one hundred years old will be
accursed.
21 They
will build houses, and inhabit them.
They
will plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
22 They
will not build, and another inhabit.
They
will not plant, and another eat:
for the days of my
people will be like the days of a tree,
and
my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They
will not labor in vain,
nor give birth for calamity;
for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed,
and their
descendants with them.
24 It
will happen that, before they call, I will answer;
and
while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw
like the ox.
Dust
will be the serpent’s food.
They
will not hurt nor
destroy in all my holy mountain,”
says
Yahweh.
Isaiah 65 from Scroll 1Q Isaiahb
17 “For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
and the former things will not be remembered,
nor come into mind.
18 But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;
for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight,
and her people a joy.
19 I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and delight in my people;
and the voice of weeping and the
voice of crying
will be heard in her no more.
20 “No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,
nor an old man who has not filled his days;
for the child will die one hundred years old,
and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.
21 They will build houses, and inhabit
them.
They will plant vineyards, and eat their
fruit.
22 They will not build, and another inhabit.
They will not plant, and another eat:
for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,
and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.
23 They will not labor in vain,
nor give birth for calamity;
for they are the offspring of Yahweh’s blessed,
and their descendants with them.
24 It will happen that, before they call, I will answer;
and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will feed together,
and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
Dust will be the serpent’s food.
They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”
says Yahweh.