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Isaiah 65

1 The Vocation of the Gentiles and the rejection of the Jews. 13 The joy of the elect and the punishment of the wicked.
1.I have been sought of them that aasked not: I was found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that called not upon my Name.
2.I have bspread out mine hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walked in a way that was not good, even after their own cimaginations:
3.A people that provoked me ever unto my face: that sacrificeth in dgardens, and burneth incense upon ebrickes.
4.Which remain among the fgraves, and lodge in the deserts, which eat gswine’s flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.
5.Which say, hStand apart, come not near to me: for I am holier then thou: these are a smoke in my wrath and a fire that lburneth all the day.
6.Behold, it is kwritten before me: I will not keep silence, but will render it and recompense it into their bosome.
7.Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers shalbe ltogether (saith the Lord) which have burnt incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their old work into their bosome.
8.Thus saith the Lord, As the wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a mblessing is in it, so will I do for my servant’s sakes, that I may not destroy them whole.
9.But I will bring a seed out of Jaakób, and out of Judáh, that shal inherit my mountain: and mine elect shal inherit it, and my servants shal dwell there.
10.And Sharón nshalbe a sheep fold, and the valley of Achór shalbe a resting place for the cattle of my people, that have sought me.
11.But ye are they that have forsaken the Lord and forgotten mine holie Mountain, & have prepared a table for the omultitude, and furnish the drink offerings unto the number.
12.Therefore will I pnumber you to the sword, and all you shal bow down to the slaughter, because I called, and ye did not answer: I qspake, and ye heard not, but did evil in my sight and did chuse that thing which I would not.
13.Therefore thus saith the Lord God, Behold, my servants shal reat, and ye shalbe hungry: behold, my servants shal drink, and ye shal be thirsty: behold, my servants shal rejoyce, and ye shalbe ashamed.
14.Behold, my servants shal sing for joy of heart, and ye shal cry for sorrow of heart, and shal howl for vexation of mind.
15.And ye shal leave your name as a curse unto my schosen: for the Lord God shal slay you & call his servants by tanother name.
16.He that shal bless in the uearth, shal bless him self in the true God, and he that sweareth in the earth, shal swear by the true God: for the former xtroubles are forgotten, and shal surely hide them selves from mine eyes.
17.For lo, I will create ynew heavens and a new earth: and the former shal not be remembered nor come into mind.
18.But be you glad and rejoyce for ever in the things that I shal create: for behold, I will create Jerusalém as a rejoycing and her people as a joy,
19.And I will rejoyce in Jerusalém, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shalbe no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20.There shalbe no more there a child of years, nor an old man that hath znot filled his daies: for he that shalbe an hundreth years old, shal die as a yong man: but the sinner being aan hundreth years old shalbe accursed.
21.And they shal bbuild houses and inhabit them, and they shal plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
22.They shal not build, & another inhabit: they shal not plant, and another eat: for as the daies of the tree are the daies of my people, and mine elect shal enjoy in old age the work of their hands.
23.They shal not labour in vain, nor bring forth in fear: for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their buds with them.
24.Yea, before they call, I will answer, and whiles they speak, I will hear.
25.The cwolf and the lamb shal feed together, and the lion shal eat straw like the bullock: and to the serpent dust shalbe his meat. They shal no more hurt nor destroy in all mine holie Mountain, saith the Lord.

Notes

1-a.
Meaning, the Gentiles which knew not God, should seek after him when he had moved their hearts with his holy Spirit, Rom. 10.20.
2-b.
He shows the cause of the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him for any admonition of his Prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretched out his hand to draw them.
2-c.
He shows that to delight in our own fantasies is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstition and idolatry.
3-d.
Which were dedicate to idoles.
3-e.
Meaning their altars, which he thus names by contempt.
4-f.
To consult with spirits and to conjure devils which was forbidden, Deut. 18.11.
4-g.
Which was contrary to God’s commandment, Lev. 11.7, Deut. 14.8.
5-h.
He shows that hypocrisy is ever joined with pride and contempt of others.
5-i.
Their punishment shall never have end.
6-k.
So that the remembrance thereof can not be forgotten.
7-l.
Shall be both punished together: and this declares how the children are punished for their father’s fautes, to wit, when the same fautes or like are found in them.
8-m.
That is, it is profitable meaning, that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is the hypocrites.
10-n.
Which was a plentiful place in Judea to feed sheep, as Achór was for cattle.
11-o.
By the multitude and number he means their innumerable idols, of whom they thought they could never have enough.
12-p.
Seeing you can not number your gods, I will number you with the sword.
12-q.
By my Prophets, whom you would not obey.
13-r.
By these words, Eat and drink, he means the blessed life of the faithful, which have always consolation, and full contentment of all things in their God, though sometimes they lack these corporal things.
15-s.
Meaning, that he would call the Gentiles, who should abhor, even the very name of the Jews for their infidelitie’s sake.
15-t.
Then by the name of the Jews.
16-x.
I will no more suffer my Church to be desolate as in times past.
17-y.
I will so alter and change the state of my Church, that is shall seem to dwell in a new world.
20-a.
Whereby he shows that the infidels and unrepentant sinners have no part of this benediction.
20-z.
Meaning, in this wonderful restoration of the Church there should be no weakness of youth, nor infirmities of age, but all should be fresh, and flourishing and this is accomplished in the heavenly Jerusalem, when all sins shall cease and the tears shall be wiped away.
21-b.
He proposes to the faithful the blessings which are contained in the Law, and so under temporal things comprehends the spiritual promises.
25-c.
Read Ch. 11.6.