Isaiah 65:16 Themes and Topics

Bring near your cause, Will say Jehovah; draw near your strong defences, will the king of Jacob say: They shall draw near and announce to us what shall happen: shewed they the former things, what they were, and we will set our heart, and we shall know their latter state; or did we hear things coming? Announce the things coming hereafter, and we shall know that ye are God: also will ye do good or will ye do evil, and we shall look around for help and see together. read more.
Behold, ye are from nothing, and your work no more: an abomination he will choose in you.

And now, thus said Jehovah creating thee, O Jacob, and forming thee, O Israel, Thou shalt not fear, for I redeemed thee; I called by thy name; thou art to me. When thou shalt pass through the waters, I with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou shalt go through fire thou shalt not be burnt, and the flame shall not consume thee. For I Jehovah thy God, the Holy One of Israel, saving thee: I gave Egypt expiating thee, Cush and Seba instead of thee. read more.
From that thou wert precious in mine eyes, thou wert honored, and I loved thee: and I will give man instead of thee, and peoples instead of thy soul. Thou shalt not fear, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the sunrisings, and from the west I will gather thee. Say to the north, Thou shalt give, and to the south thou shalt not withhold: bring in my sons from far off, and my daughters from the extremities of the earth; All being called by name: and I created him; for my glory I formed him; also I made him. Bring forth the blind people, and there are eyes; and the deaf, and ears to them. Gather all nations together, and people shall be collected: who among them shall announce this, and will they cause us to hear former things? shall they give their witnesses, and be justified? and will they hear, and say, Truth Ye my witnesses, says Jehovah, and my servants whom I chose: so that ye shall know and trust to me, and understand that I am he: before me was no God formed, and after me shall be none. I, I, Jehovah, and none saving besides me. I announced and I saved, and I caused to hear, and no stranger among you: and ye are witnesses, says Jehovah, and I am God. Also from the day I am he, and none delivering from my hand: I will do and who shall turn it back? Thus said Jehovah redeeming you, the Holy One of Israel; For your sake I sent to Babel, and brought down the bars all of them, and the Chaldees shouting in their ships. I Jehovah your Holy One, creating Israel your king. Thus said Jehovah giving a way in the sea, and a beaten path in the strong waters;, Bringing forth the chariot and the horse, the strength and the might together, they shall fall down, they shall not rise: they went out; they were quenched as tow. Will ye not remember the former things? will ye not discern the things of old? Behold me doing a new thing; now it shall spring forth, shall ye not know it? I will also set a way in the desert, rivers in the waste.

was sought by them they asked not; I was found by them not seeking me: I said, Behold me, behold me, to a nation not calling upon my name. I spread forth my hands all the day to a perverse people, going the way not good, after their purposes. The people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; read more.
Dwelling among the graves, and they will lodge among the watchers, eating swine's flesh, and broth of unclean things in their vessels. Saying, Come near to thyself; thou shalt not touch upon me, for I was clean to thee. These a smoke in my wrath, a fire burning all the day. Behold, it written before me: I will not be silent, but I requited, and I requited upon their bosom, Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, who burnt incense upon the mountains, and upon the hills they reproached me: and I measured their former work upon their bosom. Thus said Jehovah, As the new wine will be found in the cluster, and he will say, Thou shalt not destroy it, for a blessing in it: thus will I do for sake of my servant, to not destroy them all. And I brought forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah he shall inherit my mountain: and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell their. And Sharon was for a dwelling of sheep, and the valley of Achor for a resting place of the herd, for my people who sought me. And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes.

Saying, If a man shall send away his wife, and she went from him and she was to another man, shall he yet turn back to her? Being defiled, shall not that land be defiled? and thou committedst fornication with many shepherds; and turn back to me, says Jehovah. Lift up thine eyes upon the naked hills and see where thou wert not lain with. Upon the ways thou didst sit for them as the ravens in the desert; and thou wilt defile the land with thy fornications and with thine evil And the showers will be withheld, and the latter rain was not; and the forehead of a woman a harlot was to thee, and thou refusedst to be ashamed. read more.
From the time didst thou not call to me, My father, thou the friend of my youth? Will he guard forever? if he will watch to the end? Behold, I spake, and wilt thou do evil, and shalt thou be able? And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there. And saying after she did all these, Thou shalt turn back to me. And she turned not back; and her faithless sister Judah will see it And I shall see for all the causes that Israel turning away committed adultery, I sent her away and I shall give a writing of her cutting off to her; and her faithless sister Judah was not afraid, and she will go and commit fornication, she also. And it was her fornication being light, and she will defile the land, and she will commit adultery with stones and with woods. And also in all this her faithless sister Judah turned not back to me with all the heart, but in falsehood, says Jehovah. And Jehovah will say to me, Israel turning away justified her soul above faithless Judah. Go and call these words to the north, and say, Turn back, O Israel, turning away, says Jehovah; I will not cause my face to fall upon you: for I am merciful, says Jehovah, I will not guard forever. Only know thine iniquity that thou didst transgress against Jehovah thy God, and thou wilt scatter thy ways to strangers under every green tree, and to my voice ye heard not, says Jehovah. Turn back, ye sons having turned away, says Jehovah; for I was lord over you: and I took you one from a city and two from a family, and I brought you to Zion. And I gave to you shepherds according to my heart, and they fed you with knowledge and understanding.

And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Hear ye now, O house of Israel; shall not my way make even? shall not your ways make hot even? In the turning back of the just one from his justice, and doing iniquity and dying in them; in his iniquity which he did he shall die. And in the unjust one turning back from his injustice which he did; and he will do judgment and justice, he shall save his soul alive. read more.
And he will see and turn back from all his transgressions which he did, living, he shall live; he shall not die. And the house of Israel said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. Will not my ways make even, O house of Israel, shall not your way not make even? For this I will judge you, O house of Israel, each according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah: Turn back and withdraw from all your transgressions; and iniquity shall not be to you for a stumbling block. Cast away from you all your transgressions which ye transgressed against me, and make to you a new heart and a new spirit: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? For I shall not delight in the death of him dying, says the Lord Jehovah: and turn ye back and live.

And thou son of man, say to the house of Israel: Thus ye said, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pining away in them, and how shall we live? Say to them, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, if I shall delight in the death of the unjust; but in the turning back of the unjust one from his way, and he lived: turn back, turn back from your evil ways: and wherefore will ye die, O house of Israel? And thou, son of man, say to the sons of my people, The justice of the just shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: and the injustice of the unjust, he shall not stumble in it in the day of his turning back from his injustice; and the just shall not be able to live in the day of his sinning. read more.
In my saying to the just, living, he shall live; and he trusted upon his justice, and he did evil, all his justice shall not be remembered; and in his iniquity which he did he shall die in it And in my saying to the unjust, Dying, thou shalt die; and he turned back from his sinning and he did judgment and justice; The unjust shall turn back the pledge he shall restore the spoil, going in the laws of the living not to do evil; living, he shall live, he shall not die. All his sins which he sinned shall not be remembered to him: he did judgment and justice; living, he shall live. And the sons of my people said, The way of Jehovah will not make even: and they their way shall not make even. In the turning back of the just from his justice and doing iniquity, he shall die in them. And in the turning back of the unjust from his injustice and doing judgment and justice upon them, he shall live. And ye said, The way of Jehovah will not make even. I will judge you each according to his ways, O house of Israel.

Hear ye now what Jehovah said: Arise, contend thou with the mountains, and the hills shall hear thy voice. Hear ye mountains the contention of Jehovah, and ye perpetual foundations of the earth: for a contention to Jehovah with his people, and he will dispute with Israel My people, what did I to thee? and in what did I weary thee? answer to me. read more.
For I brought thee up from the land of Egypt, and from the house of servants I redeemed thee; and I shall send before thy face, Moses, Aaron and, Miriam. O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab counseled, and what Balaam son of Beor answered him from the acacias even to Gilgal; in order to know the justice of Jehovah. With what shall I come before Jehovah? I will bow to the high God; shall I come before him with burnt-offerings, with calves, the sons of a year? Will Jehovah delight in thousands of rams, in ten thousands of torrents of oil? shall I give my first-born my transgression? the fruit of my belly, the sin of my soul? He announced to thee, O man, what was good; and what did Jehovah require of thee but to do judgment and to love mercy, and being humbled, to go with thy God? The voice of Jehovah will call to the city, and wisdom feared thy name: hear ye the rod, and who appointed it

For from the days of your fathers ye departed from my laws, and ye watched not. Turn back to me and I will turn back to you, said Jehovah of armies. And ye said, In what shall we turn back? Will man defraud God? For ye defraud me. And ye said, In what did we defraud thee? The tenths and the offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: and ye defrauded me, the nation all of it read more.
Bring ye all the tenths to the house of treasure, and food shall be in my house, and try me now in this, said Jehovah of armies, if I will not open to you the lattices of the heavens, and empty out to you a blessing, even is it not a sufficiency. And I rebuked upon the eater for you, and he shall not corrupt for you the fruit of the earth; and the vine in the field shall not be barren to you, says Jehovah of armies. And all nations pronounced you happy, for ye shall be a land of delight, said Jehovah of armies. Your words were strong against me, said Jehovah. And ye said, What did we speak against thee? Ye said, Vanity to serve God: and what profit that we watched his watches, and that we went mourning from the face of Jehovah of armies? And now we pronounce the proud happy; also they working injustice were built up; also they tried Jehovah and they will be delivered.

Saying, O my God, thou wilt not take me away in the half of my days: thy years in generations of generations. Before time thou didst found the earth, and the heavens the work of thy hands. They shall perish and thou shalt stand. And all they shall fall away as a garment; as clothing thou shalt change them, and they shall be changed. read more.
And thou the same, and thy years shall not finish.

And, Thou, at the beginning, Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands: These shall be destroyed; but thou remainest; and they all as a garment shall grow old; And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes. read more.
For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart But be ye glad and rejoice even forever, for what I create: for behold me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her people a rejoicing.

For as the new heavens and the new earth which I made, standing before me, says Jehovah, so shall stand your seed and your name.

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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and first earth passed away; and the sea was no more. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. read more.
And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed. And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

And ye forsaking Jehovah, forgetting my holy mountain, and preparing a table for Gad, and filling up for fate from mixed wine. And I numbered you to the sword, and ye all shall bend to the slaughter, because I called, and ye answered not: I spake and ye heard not; and ye will do evil in mine eyes, and in what I delighted not, ye chose. For this, thus said the Lord Jehovah, Behold, my servants shall eat and ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink and ye shall thirst: behold, my servants shall rejoice, and ye shall be ashamed. read more.
Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes. For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart

That by two unalterable deeds, in which it is impossible for God to deceive we might have a strong consolation, taking refuge in holding firmly the hope set before:

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In hope of eternal life, (which God, not false, promised before eternal times;

He made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them: he watched the truth forever.

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The Rock, his work complete: For all his ways judgment: A God of faithfulness and not of iniquity Just and right is he.

And now, Lord Jehovah, thou that God, and thy words shall be true, and thou wilt speak to thy servant this goodness.

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For straight the word of Jehovah, and all his work in faithfulness.

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That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes.

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It may not be: and let God be true, and every man a liar; as has been written, That thou mightest be justified in thy words, and mightest conquer in thy being judged.

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And, Thou, at the beginning, Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the work of thy hands: These shall be destroyed; but thou remainest; and they all as a garment shall grow old; And as a cloak shalt thou turn them round, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes. read more.
For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart But be ye glad and rejoice even forever, for what I create: for behold me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her people a rejoicing.

For as the new heavens and the new earth which I made, standing before me, says Jehovah, so shall stand your seed and your name.

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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and first earth passed away; and the sea was no more. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. read more.
And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed. And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

He conquering, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and without shall he no more come forth: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down from heaven from my God: and my new name.

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And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and first earth passed away; and the sea was no more. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice from heaven saying, Behold the tent of God with men, and he will dwell with them and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, their God. read more.
And God shall wipe out every tear from their eyes; and death be no more, neither grief, neither crying, nor trouble shall be more: for the first things departed. And he sitting upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he says to me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

Behold, my servants shall shout from good of heart, but ye shall cry from pain of heart, and wail from breaking of spirit And ye set down your name for a curse to my chosen: and the Lord Jehovah slaying thee, and he will call his servants another name. That he praising himself in the earth shall praise himself in the true God; and he swearing in the earth, shall swear in the true God; for the former straits were forgotten, and because they were hid from mine eyes. read more.
For behold me creating new heavens and a new earth: and the former things shall not be remembered, and they shall not come upon the heart But be ye glad and rejoice even forever, for what I create: for behold me creating Jerusalem a joy, and her people a rejoicing. And I rejoiced in Jerusalem, and was glad in my people; and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, and the voice of crying. There shall be no more from thence a child of days, and an old man who shall not fill up his days: for the boy shall die the son of a hundred years and he sinning, the son of a hundred years, shall be cursed. And they built houses and they dwelt in them; and they planted vineyards, and they ate the fruit They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat: for as the days of a tree the days of my people, and my chosen shall wear out the work of their hands. They shall not labor in vain, and they shall not bring forth for terror; for they the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them. And it was before they shall call, I will answer; they yet speaking, and I will hear. The wolf and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion and the ox shall eat straw, and the serpent, dust his bread. They shall not do evil, and they shall not destroy in all my holy mountain, said Jehovah

And these the goings out of the city from the side north, five hundred and four thousand the measure. And the gates of the city for the names of the tribes of Israel, three gates north; the gate of Reuben, one; the gate of Judah, one; the gate of Levi, one. And to the side east, five hundred and four thousand: and three gates; the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one; read more.
And the side south, five hundred and four thousand the measure: and three gates; the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulon, one. The side of the sea five hundred and four thousand; three gates; the gate of Gad, one; the gate of Asher, one; the gate of Naphtah, one. Bound about eighteen thousand: and the name of the city from the day, Jehovah them

Tell me, those wishing to be under the law, do ye not hear the law? For it has been written, that Abraham had two sons, one by the bondmaid, and one by the free. But he truly of the bondmaid was born according to the flesh; and he of the free through the promise. read more.
Which things are spoken figuratively: for these are the two covenants; one truly from mount Sinai, begetting to bondage, which is Agar. For Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and now stands in the same rank With Jerusalem, and is in a servile condition with her children. But Jerusalem above is free, which is mother of us all.

But ye have come to mount Sion, and to the city of the living God, heavenly Jerusalem, and to myriads of angels, To the assembly of people, and church of the firstborn, transcribed in the heavens, and to God the Judge of all, and. to the spirits of the just perfected, And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, speaking better things than Abel. read more.
See that ye refuse not him speaking. For if they escaped not, having refused him giving an intimation of the divine will on earth, much more we, who having turned back from him from the heavens: Whose voice then shook the earth: and now he has proclaimed, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also the heaven. And the Yet once more, makes manifest the transferring the things shaken, as of things made, that the things not being shaken might remain. Wherefore we receiving a kingdom unmoved; we should have grace by which we might serve God acceptably, with reverence and circumspection: