Isaiah 65

1 They are turned back: let them be greatly confounded, that trust in a graven thing, that say to a molten thing: You are our god. 2 Hear, ye deaf, and, ye blind, behold that you may see. 3 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord? 4 Thou that seest many things, wilt thou not observe them? thou that hast ears open, wilt thou not hear? 5 And the Lord was willing to sanctify him, and to magnify the law, and exalt it. 6 But this is a people that is robbed and wasted: they are all the snare of young men, and they are hid in the houses of prisons: they are made a prey, and there is none to deliver them: a spoil, and there is none that saith: Restore. 7 Who is there among you that will give ear to this, that will attend and hearken for times to come? 8 Who hath given Jacob for a spoil, and Israel to robbers? hath not the Lord himself, against whom we have sinned? And they would not walk in his ways, and they have not hearkened to his law. 9 And he hath poured out upon him the indignation of his fury, and a strong battle, and hath burnt him round about, and he knew not: and set him on fire, and he understood not. 11 And now thus saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob, and formed thee, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed thee, and called thee by thy name: thou art mine. 12 When thou shalt pass through the waters, I will be with thee, and the rivers shall not cover thee: when thou shalt walk in the fire, thou shalt not be burnt, and the flames shall not burn in thee: 13 For I am the Lord thy God, the Holy One of Israel, thy Saviour: I have given Egypt for thy atonement, Ethiopia and Saba for thee. 14 Since thou becamest honourable in my eyes, thou art glorious: I have loved thee, and I will give men for thee, and people for thy life. 15 Fear not, for I am with thee: I will bring thy seed from the east, and gather thee from the west. 16 I will say to the north: Give up: and to the south: Keep not back: bring my sons from afar, and my daughters from the ends of the earth. 17 And every one that calleth upon my name, I have created him for my glory. I have formed him, and made him. 18 Bring forth the people that are blind, and have eyes: that are deaf, and have ears. 19 All the nations are assembled together, and the tribes are gathered: who among you can declare this, and shall make us hear the former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, let them be justified, and hear, and say: It is truth. 20 You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and my servant whom I have chosen: that you may know, and believe me, and understand that I myself am. Before me there was no God formed, and after me there shall be none. 21 I am, I am the Lord: and there is no saviour besides me. 22 I have declared, and have saved. I have made it heard, and there was no strange one among you. You are my witnesses, saith the Lord, and I am God. 23 And from the beginning I am the same, and there is none that can deliver out of my hind: I will work, and who shall turn it away? 24 Thus saith the Lord your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: For your sake I sent to Babylon, and have brought down all their bars, and the Chaldeans glorying in their ships. 25 I am the Lord your Holy One, the Creator of Israel, your King.