1 So sê die HERE: Die hemel is my troon en die aarde die voetbank van my voete. Waar is dan die huis wat julle vir My sal bou? En waar die plek wat my rusplek sal wees?
2 Want my hand het al hierdie dinge gemaak, en so het dit alles ontstaan, spreek die HERE. Maar op hierdie een sal Ek let: op hom wat arm is en verslae van gees, en wat bewe vir my woord.
3 Wie 'n bees as offer slag, is soos hy wat 'n man doodslaan; wie 'n lam offer, soos hy wat 'n hond se nek breek; wie 'n spysoffer bring -- dit is varkbloed; wie wierook as gedenkoffer bring, is soos hy wat 'n afgod prys. Soos hulle hul eie weë verkies het en hulle siel 'n behae het in hul verfoeisels,
4 so sal Ek ook hulle ongeluk verkies en wat hulle met skrik vervul, oor hulle laat kom; omdat Ek geroep en niemand geantwoord het nie, Ek gespreek en hulle nie gehoor het nie; maar hulle het gedoen wat verkeerd is in my oë, en verkies wat My nie behaag nie.
5 Hoor die woord van die HERE, julle wat vir sy woord bewe! Julle broers, julle haters wat julle verstoot om my Naam ontwil, sê: Laat die HERE heerlik word, dat ons julle vreugde kan aanskou! Maar hulle sal beskaamd staan!
6 Hoor -- 'n rumoer uit die stad! Hoor -- uit die tempel! Hoor -- dit is die HERE wat sy vyande hulle dade vergeld!
7 Voordat sy weë gekry het, het sy gebaar; voordat smart oor haar gekom het, is sy van 'n seuntjie verlos.
8 Wie het so iets gehoor? Wie het sulke dinge gesien? Word 'n land op een enkele dag gebore? Of word 'n nasie met een slag gebaar? Want Sion het weë gekry, meteens haar kinders gebaar.
9 Sou Ek naby die geboorte bring en nie laat baar nie? sê die HERE. Of sou Ek wat laat baar, self toesluit? sê jou God.
10 Wees bly saam met Jerusalem en juig oor haar, almal wat haar liefhet! Wees vrolik saam met haar, baie vrolik, almal wat oor haar treurig gewees het!
11 sodat julle kan suig en versadig word aan die bors van haar vertroostinge; sodat julle kan uitdrink en julle verlustig in die oorvloed van haar heerlikheid.
12 Want so sê die HERE: Kyk, die vrede lei Ek na haar toe soos 'n rivier en die rykdom van die nasies soos 'n oorlopende stroom; en julle sal suig, julle sal op die heup gedra word en op die knieë getroetel word.
13 Soos iemand wat deur sy moeder getroos word, so sal Ek julle troos; en julle sal in Jerusalem getroos word.
14 En julle sal dit sien, en julle hart sal vrolik wees, en julle gebeente sal groei soos die jong gras; dan sal die hand van die HERE bekend word aan sy knegte, en Hy sal op sy vyande grimmig wees.
15 Want kyk, die HERE sal kom in vuur, en sy waens soos 'n stormwind, om in hittigheid sy toorn te openbaar en in vuurvlamme sy dreiging.
16 Want met vuur en met sy swaard sal die HERE strafgerig hou oor alle vlees, en hulle wat deur die HERE verslaan is, sal baie wees.
17 Die wat hulleself heilig en hulleself reinig vir die tuine, terwyl hulle die een nadoen wat in die middel staan; wat varkvleis eet en verfoeisels en muise -- almal saam sal hulle tot niet raak, spreek die HERE.
18 Maar Ek ken hulle werke en hulle gedagtes; die tyd kom dat Ek al die nasies en tonge versamel; en hulle sal kom en my heerlikheid sien.
19 En Ek sal 'n teken onder hulle doen, en vrygeraaktes uit hulle stuur na die nasies, na Tarsis, Pul en Lud, wat die boog span, na Tubal en Jawan, na die ver kuslande wat my tyding nie gehoor en my heerlikheid nie gesien het nie; en hulle sal my heerlikheid onder die nasies verkondig.
20 En hulle sal al julle broers bring uit al die nasies as offergawe aan die HERE, op perde en op waens en in draagstoele en op muilesels en op kamele na my heilige berg, na Jerusalem, sê die HERE, net soos die kinders van Israel die spysoffer in 'n rein voorwerp bring na die huis van die HERE.
21 En ook sal Ek uit hulle priesters en Leviete neem, spreek die HERE.
22 Want soos die nuwe hemel en die nuwe aarde wat Ek maak, voor my aangesig sal bestaan, spreek die HERE, so sal julle nageslag en julle naam bestendig wees.
23 En elke maand op die nuwemaan en elke week op die sabbat sal alle vlees kom om te aanbid voor my aangesig, sê die HERE.
24 En hulle sal uitgaan en die lyke sien van die mense wat teen My opgestaan het; want hulle wurm sal nie sterwe en hulle vuur sal nie uitgeblus word nie, en hulle sal afgryslik wees vir alle vlees.
1 I have been ready to give an answer to those who did not make prayer to me; I have been offering myself to those who were not searching for me; I said, Here am I, here am I, to a nation which gave no respect to my name.
2 All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
3 A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
4 Who are seated in the resting-places of the dead, and by night are in the secret places; who take pig's flesh for food, and have the liquid of disgusting things in their vessels.
5 Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
6 See, it is recorded before me, says the Lord: I will not keep back my hand, till I have sent punishment,
7 For their sins and the sins of their fathers, who were burning perfumes on the mountains, and saying evil things against me on the hills: so I will take the measure of their sins, and will send the punishment for them into their breast.
8 This is the word of the Lord: As the new wine is seen in the grapes, and they say, Do not send destruction on it, for a blessing is in it: so will I do for my servants, in order that I may not put an end to them all.
9 And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.
10 And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.
11 But as for you who have given up the Lord, who have no care for my holy mountain, who get ready a table for Chance, and make offerings of mixed wine to Fate;
12 Your fate will be the sword, and you will all go down to death: because when my voice came to you, you made no answer; you did not give ear to my word; but you did what was evil in my eyes, desiring what was not pleasing to me.
13 For this cause says the Lord God, My servants will have food, but you will be in need of food: my servants will have drink, but you will be dry: my servants will have joy, but you will be shamed:
14 My servants will make songs in the joy of their hearts, but you will be crying for sorrow, and making sounds of grief from a broken spirit.
15 And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:
16 So that he who is requesting a blessing will make use of the name of the true God, and he who takes an oath will do so by the true God; because the past troubles are gone out of mind, and because they are covered from my eyes.
17 For see, I am making a new heaven and a new earth: and the past things will be gone completely out of mind.
18 But men will be glad and have joy for ever in what I am making; for I am making Jerusalem a delight, and her people a joy.
19 And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.
20 No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.
21 And they will be building houses and living in them; planting vine-gardens and getting the fruit of them.
22 They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.
23 Their work will not be for nothing, and they will not give birth to children for destruction; for they are a seed to whom the Lord has given his blessing, and their offspring will be with them.
24 And before they make their request I will give an answer, and while they are still making prayer to me, I will give ear.
25 The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.