ISAIAH CHAPTER 65 (ORIGINAL 1611 KJV)

The actual, original, first printing of the 1611 King James Version (‘HE’ Bible) — Isaiah Chapter 65.

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CHAP. LXV.

1 The calling of the Gentiles. 2 The Iewes, for their incredulity, idolatry and hypocrisie, are reiected. 8 A remnant shalbe saued. 11 Iudgements on the wicked, and blessings on the godly. 17 The blessed state of the new Ierusalem.

¹ I am sought of them that asked not for me: I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, vnto a nation that was not called by my name.¹

² I haue spread out my hands all the day vnto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their owne thoughts:

³ A people that prouoketh mee to anger continually to my face, that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense vpon altars of bricke:³

⁴ Which remaine among the graues, and lodge in the monuments, which eate swines flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels:⁴

⁵ Which say; Stand by thy selfe, come not neere to me; for I am holier then thou: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.⁵

⁶ Behold, it is written before me: I will not keepe silence, but will recompence, euen recompence into their bosome,

⁷ Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, (saith the Lord) which haue burnt incense vpon the mountaines, & blasphemed mee vpon the hils: therfore will I measure their former worke into their bosome.

⁸ ¶ Thus saith the Lord, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it: so wil I doe for my seruants sakes, that I may not destroy them all.

⁹ And I will bring forth a seede out of Iacob, and out of Iudah an inheritour of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my seruants shall dwell there.

¹⁰ And Sharon shall be a fold of flockes, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie downe in, for my people that haue sought me.

¹¹ ¶ But yee are they that for sake the Lord, that forget my holy mountaine, that prepare a table for that troope, and that furnish the drinke offring vnto that number.¹¹

¹² Therefore will I number you to the sword, and yee shall all bow downe to the slaughter: because when I called, yee did not answere; when I spake, yee did not heare, but did euill before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not:¹²

¹³ Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, my seruants shall eate, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my seruants shall drinke, but yee shall be thirstie: behold, my seruants shall reioyce, but yee shall be ashamed.

¹⁴ Behold, my seruants shall sing for ioy of heart, but yee shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howle for vexation of spirit.¹⁴

¹⁵ And yee shall leaue your name for a curse vnto my chosen: for the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his seruants by another name:

¹⁶ That he who blesseth himselfe in the earth, shall blesse himselfe in the God of trueth; and he that sweareth in the earth, shall sweare by the God of trueth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

¹⁷ ¶ For behold, I create new heauens, and a new earth: & the former shal not be remembred, nor come into mind.¹⁷

¹⁸ But bee you glad and reioyce for euer in that which I create: for beholde, I create Ierusalem a reioycing, and her people a ioy.

¹⁹ And I wil reioyce in Ierusalem, and ioy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.¹⁹

²⁰ There shalbe no more thence an infant of dayes, nor an olde man, that hath not filled his dayes: for the childe shall die an hundreth yeeres olde: but the sinner being an hundreth yeres old, shalbe accursed.

²¹ And they shall builde houses, and inhabite them, and they shall plant vineyards, and eate the fruit of them.

²² They shal not build, and another inhabit: they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the daies of a tree, are the dayes of my people, and mine elect shal long enioy the worke of their hands.²²

²³ They shall not labour in vaine, nor bring forth for trouble: for they are the seede of the blessed of the Lord, and their offspring with them.

²⁴ And it shal come to passe, that before they call, I will answere, & whiles they are yet speaking, I will heare.²⁴

²⁵ The wolfe and the lambe shall feede together, and the lyon shall eate straw like the bullocke: and dust shalbe the serpents meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountaine, sayth the Lord.²⁵

Isaiah Chapter 65 Sidenote References (from Original 1611 KJV Bible)

¹ Rom.10. 20. , Rom.9. 24.25,26. eph. 2.12.
³ Heb. vpon brickes.
⁴ Or, pieces.
⁵ Or, anger.
¹¹ Or, Gad. , Or, Meni.
¹² Prou.1. 23. ier.7. 13. , Chap. 66. 4.
¹⁴ Heb. breaking.
¹⁷ Chap. 66. 22. 2.pet. 3.13. reu. 21.1. , Heb. come vp on the heart.
¹⁹ Reu.21.4.
²² Heb. shall make them continue long, or shall weare out.
²⁴ Psal. 32. 5.
²⁵ Isai.11. 6,7.

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