July 14, 2026, Isaiah 65:1-16
July 14, 2026, Isaiah 65:1-16
65 I was ready to be sought
by those who did not ask for me;
I was ready to be found by
those who did not seek me.
I said, “Here I am, here I am,”
to a nation that was not
called by[a] my name.
2 I spread out my hands all the day
to a rebellious people,
who walk in a way that is not good,
following their own
devices;
3 a people who provoke me
to my face continually,
sacrificing in gardens
and making offerings on
bricks;
4 who sit in tombs,
and spend the night in
secret places;
who eat pig's flesh,
and broth of tainted meat
is in their vessels;
5 who say, “Keep to yourself,
do not come near me, for I
am too holy for you.”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,
a fire that burns all the
day.
6 Behold, it is written before me:
“I will not keep silent,
but I will repay;
I will indeed repay into their lap
7 both your iniquities and your
fathers' iniquities together,
says the Lord;
because they made offerings on the mountains
and insulted me on the
hills,
I will measure into their lap
payment for their former
deeds.”[b]
8 Thus says the Lord:
“As the new wine is found in the cluster,
and they say, ‘Do not
destroy it,
for there is a blessing in
it,’
so I will do for my servants' sake,
and not destroy them all.
9 I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
and from Judah possessors
of my mountains;
my chosen shall possess it,
and my servants shall
dwell there.
10 Sharon shall become a pasture for flocks,
and the Valley of
Achor a place for herds to lie down,
for my people who
have sought me.
11 But you who forsake the Lord,
who forget my holy
mountain,
who set a table for Fortune
and fill cups of
mixed wine for Destiny,
12 I will destine you to the sword,
and all of you shall bow
down to the slaughter,
because, when I called, you did not answer;
when I spoke, you did not
listen,
but you did what was evil in my eyes
and chose what I did not
delight in.”
13 Therefore thus says the
Lord God:
“Behold, my servants shall eat,
but you shall be hungry;
behold, my servants shall drink,
but you shall be thirsty;
behold, my servants shall rejoice,
but you shall be put to
shame;
14 behold, my servants shall sing for gladness of
heart,
but you shall cry out for
pain of heart
and shall wail for
breaking of spirit.
15 You shall leave your name to my chosen for
a curse,
and the Lord God will put you to death,
but his servants he
will call by another name,
16 so that he who blesses himself in the land
shall bless himself
by the God of truth,
and he who takes an oath in the land
shall swear by the
God of truth;
because the former troubles are forgotten
and are hidden from my
eyes.
How does God view when we
rebel?
How does God view our sin?
God is seeking His people even
when we aren’t seeking Him.
Idolatry is extremely
offensive to God. What things come
between you and God? What things do you
need to put away that are keeping you from having the relationship from God He
wants to have with you?
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