{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/65","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:03.405Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Isaiah","bookSlug":"isaiah","chapter":65,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":64,"nextChapter":66,"totalChapters":66,"totalVerses":25},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"THEY have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name. "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And the plains shall be turned to folds of hocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it, "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shell not come upon the heart. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, end the people thereof joy. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will hear. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent's food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Isaiah 65 (DRB)","markdown":"[Isaiah 65](https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/65)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/isaiah/65 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}