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944 Prophecy of Isaias

flocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for days: for the child shall die a hundred years old,
the herds to lie down in, for my people that have and the sinner being a hundred years old shall
sought me. be accursed.
11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that 21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit
have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat
for fortune, and offer libations upon it, the fruits of them.
12 I will number you in the sword, and you 22 They shall not build, and another inhabit;
shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the
you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people,
hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have and the works of their hands shall be of long
chosen the things that displease me. continuance.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold 23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring
my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the
behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with
thirsty. them.
14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you 24 And it shall come to pass, that before they
shall be confounded: behold my servants shall call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will
praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry hear.
for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of 25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together;
spirit. the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall
15 And you shall leave your name for an exe- be the serpent’s food: they shall not hurt nor kill
cration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
thee, and call his servants by another name.
16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth,
shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that Chapter 66
sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen:
because the former distresses are forgotten, and Thus saith the Lord: Heaven is my throne, and
because they are hid from my eyes. the earth my footstool: what is this house that
17 For behold I create new heavens, and a you will build to me? and what is this place of
new earth: and the former things shall not be in my rest?
remembrance, and they shall not come upon the 2 My hand made all these things, and all these
heart. things were made, saith the Lord. But to whom
18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in shall I have respect, but to him that is poor and
these things, which I create: for behold I create little, and of a contrite spirit, and that trembleth
Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy. at my words?
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy 3 He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew
in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as
more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an
20 There shall no more be an infant of days oblation, as if he should offer swine’s blood; he
there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his that remembereth incense, as if he should bless