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Isaiah, Chapter 66

¹ Thus says the LORD, “Heaven is My throne and the earth is My footstool. Where then is a house you could build for Me? And where is a place that^a Lit is My resting place?I may rest?	1 Ki1 8:27 Psa 11:4 Mat 5:34 Mat 5:35 Mat 23:22 Sa2 7:5-7 Jer 7:4 Joh 4:20 Joh 4:21 Act 7:48-50
² “For My hand made all these things, Thus all these things came into being,” declares the LORD. “But to this one I will look, To him who is humble and contrite of spirit, and who trembles at My word.	2 Isa 40:26 Psa 34:18 Isa 57:15 Mat 5:3 Mat 5:4 Luk 18:13 Luk 18:14 Psa 119:120 Isa 66:5
³ “But he who kills an ox is like one who slays a man; He who sacrifices a lamb is like the one who breaks a dog’s neck; He who offers a grain offering is like one who offers swine’s blood; He who^b Lit offers a memorial of incenseburns incense is like the one who blesses an idol. As they have chosen their own ways, And their soul delights in their abominations,	3 Isa 65:4 Lev 2:2 Isa 1:13 Isa 57:17 Isa 65:2 Isa 44:19
⁴ So I will choose their^c Lit ill treatmentspunishments And will bring on them what they dread. Because I called, but no one answered; I spoke, but they did not listen. And they did evil in My sight And chose that in which I did not delight.”	4 Pro 1:31 Pro 1:32 Isa 65:7 Pro 10:24 Pro 1:24 Isa 65:12 Jer 7:13 Ki2 21:2 Ki2 21:6 Isa 59:7 Isa 65:12 Jer 7:30
⁵ Hear the word of the LORD, you who tremble at His word: “Your brothers who hate you, who exclude you for My name’s sake, Have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified, that we may see your joy.’ But they will be put to shame.	5 Isa 66:2 Psa 38:20 Isa 60:15 Mat 5:10-12 Mat 10:22 Joh 9:34 Joh 15:18-20 Luk 13:17
⁶ “A voice of uproar from the city, a voice from the temple, The voice of the LORD who is rendering recompense to His enemies.	6 Isa 59:18 Isa 65:6 Joe 3:7
⁷ “Before she travailed, she brought forth; Before her pain came, she gave birth to a boy.	7 Isa 37:3 Isa 54:1 Rev 12:5
⁸ “Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Can a land be^d Lit travailed withborn in one day? Can a nation be brought forth all at once? As soon as Zion travailed, she also brought forth her sons.	8 Isa 64:4
⁹ “Shall I bring to the point of birth and not give delivery?” says the LORD. “Or shall I who gives delivery shut the womb?” says your God.	9 Isa 37:3
¹⁰ “Be joyful with Jerusalem and rejoice for her, all you who love her; Be exceedingly glad with her, all you who mourn over her,	10 Deu 32:43 Isa 65:18 Rom 15:10 Psa 26:8 Psa 122:6 Psa 137:6
¹¹ That you may nurse and be satisfied with her comforting breasts, That you may suck and be delighted with her bountiful bosom.”	11 Isa 49:23 Isa 60:16 Joe 3:18 Isa 60:1 Isa 60:2 Isa 62:2
¹² For thus says the LORD, “Behold, I extend peace to her like a river, And the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream; And you will^e Lit nursebe nursed, you will be carried on the^f Lit sidehip and fondled on the knees.	12 Psa 72:3 Psa 72:7 Isa 48:18 Isa 60:5 Isa 61:6 Isa 60:4
¹³ “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”	13 Isa 12:1 Isa 40:1 Isa 40:2 Isa 49:13 Isa 51:3 Co2 1:3 Co2 1:4
¹⁴ Then you will see this, and your heart will be glad, And your bones will flourish like the new grass; And the hand of the LORD will be made known to His servants, But He will be indignant toward His enemies.	14 Isa 33:20 Zec 10:7 Pro 3:8 Isa 58:11 Ezr 7:9 Ezr 8:31 Isa 10:5 Isa 13:5 Isa 34:2
¹⁵ For behold, the LORD will come in fire And His chariots like the whirlwind, To render His anger with fury, And His rebuke with flames of fire.	15 Isa 10:17 Isa 30:27 Isa 30:33 Isa 31:9 Psa 68:17 Isa 5:28 Hab 3:8
¹⁶ For the LORD will execute judgment by fire And by His sword on all flesh, And those slain by the LORD will be many.	16 Isa 30:30 Eze 38:22 Isa 65:12 Eze 38:21
¹⁷ “Those who sanctify and purify themselves to go to the gardens, ^g Lit AfterFollowing one in the center, Who eat swine’s flesh, detestable things and mice, Will come to an end altogether,” declares the LORD.	17 Isa 1:29 Isa 65:3 Lev 11:7 Isa 65:4 Isa 1:28 Isa 1:31
¹⁸ “For I^h So with Gr; Heb omits knowknow their works and their thoughts;ⁱ Lit it is comingthe time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. ¹⁹ I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations: Tarshish,^j So with Gr; Heb PulPut, Lud,^k So with Gr; Heb those who draw the bowMeshech, Tubal and^l I.e. GreeceJavan, to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations. ²⁰ Then they shall bring all your brethren from all the nations as a grain offering to the LORD, on horses, in chariots, in litters, on mules and on camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the sons of Israel bring their grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD. ²¹ I will also take some of them for priests and for Levites,” says the LORD.	18 Isa 59:7 Isa 65:2 Isa 45:22-25 Jer 3:17 19 Isa 11:10 Isa 11:12 Isa 49:22 Isa 62:10 Isa 2:16 Isa 60:9 Eze 27:10 Gen 10:2 Isa 11:11 Isa 24:15 Isa 60:9 Ch1 16:24 Isa 42:12 20 Isa 43:6 Isa 49:22 Isa 60:4 Isa 2:2 Isa 2:3 Isa 11:9 Isa 56:7 Isa 65:11 Isa 65:25 Isa 52:11 21 Exo 19:6 Isa 61:6 Pe1 2:5 Pe1 2:9
²² “For just as the new heavens and the new earth Which I make will endure before Me,” declares the LORD, “So your offspring and your name will endure.	22 Isa 65:17 Heb 12:26 Heb 12:27 Pe2 3:13 Rev 21:1 Isa 61:8 Isa 61:9 Isa 65:22 Isa 65:23 Joh 10:27-29 Pe1 1:4 Pe1 1:5 Isa 56:5
²³ “And it shall be from new moon to new moon And from sabbath to sabbath, All^m Lit fleshmankind will come to bow down before Me,” says the LORD.	23 Isa 1:13 Isa 1:14 Eze 46:1 Eze 46:6 Isa 19:21 Isa 19:23 Isa 27:13 Isa 49:7
²⁴ “Then they will go forth and look On the corpses of the men Who haveⁿ Or rebelledtransgressed against Me. For their worm will not die And their fire will not be quenched; And they will be an abhorrence to all^o Lit fleshmankind.”	24 Isa 5:25 Isa 34:3 Isa 1:28 Isa 24:20 Isa 14:11 Mar 9:48 Isa 1:31 Mat 3:12 Dan 12:2


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