Isaiah

1“I am enquired of by those who didn’t ask.I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.

2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people,who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

3a people who provoke me to my face continually,sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks;

4who sit amongst the graves,and spend nights in secret places;who eat pig’s meat,and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

5who say, ‘Stay by yourself,don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’These are smoke in my nose,a fire that burns all day.

6“Behold, it is written before me:I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom

7your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says the LORD,“who have burnt incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”

8The LORD says,“As the new wine is found in the cluster,and one says, ‘Don’t destroy it, for a blessing is in it:’so I will do for my servants’ sake,that I may not destroy them all.

9I will bring offspring out of Jacob,and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains.My chosen will inherit it,and my servants will dwell there.

10Sharon will be a fold of flocks,and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people who have sought me.

11“But you who forsake the LORD,who forget my holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who fill up mixed wine to Destiny;

12I will destine you to the sword,and you will all bow down to the slaughter;because when I called, you didn’t answer.When I spoke, you didn’t listen;but you did that which was evil in my eyes,and chose that in which I didn’t delight.”

13Therefore the Lord GOD says,“Behold, my servants will eat,but you will be hungry;behold, my servants will drink,but you will be thirsty.Behold, my servants will rejoice,but you will be disappointed.

14Behold, my servants will sing for joy of heart,but you will cry for sorrow of heart, and will wail for anguish of spirit.

15You will leave your name for a curse to my chosen,and the Lord GOD will kill you.He will call his servants by another name,

16so that he who blesses himself in the earth will bless himself in the God of truth; and he who swears in the earth will swear by the God of truth;because the former troubles are forgotten,and because they are hidden from my eyes.

17“For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;and the former things will not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18But be glad and rejoice forever in that which I create;for, behold, I create Jerusalem to be a delight, and her people a joy.

19I will rejoice in Jerusalem,and delight in my people;and the voice of weeping and the voice of cryingwill be heard in her no more.

20“No more will there be an infant who only lives a few days,nor an old man who has not filled his days;for the child will die one hundred years old,and the sinner being one hundred years old will be accursed.

21They will build houses and inhabit them.They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

22They will not build and another inhabit.They will not plant and another eat;for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree,and my chosen will long enjoy the work of their hands.

23They will not labour in vainnor give birth for calamity;for they are the offspring of the LORD’s blessedand their descendants with them.

24It will happen that before they call, I will answer;and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

25The wolf and the lamb will feed together.The lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food.They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,”says the LORD.

1Ta đã phán : “Ta đây, Ta đây này !”

2bọn người theo ý riêng mà đi trong đường tà,

3Chúng tế lễ trong các khu vườn, dâng hương trên đống gạch.

4ăn thịt heo, và bát đĩa của chúng đầy những món ăn ô uế.

5Những điều đó khiến cơn giận Ta bừng lên như lửa cháy suốt ngày.

6sẽ báo oán thế nào cho đích đáng.

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8để không huỷ diệt tất cả.”

9ở đó, các tôi tớ của Ta sẽ cư ngụ.

10thung lũng A-kho nên chỗ cho bò nằm.

11và đổ rượu đầy chén dâng thần Mơ-ni,

12điều Ta không thích, các ngươi lại chọn.

13còn các ngươi, các ngươi sẽ phải xấu hổ.

14các ngươi sẽ kêu gào, tâm thần tan nát.

15Còn các tôi tớ của Ta, chúng sẽ được gọi bằng một tên khác.

16và không còn xuất hiện trước mắt Ta.

17không còn ai nhớ đến thuở ban đầu và nhắc lại trong tâm trí nữa.

18và dân ở đó thành nỗi vui mừng.

19Nơi đây, sẽ không còn nghe thấy tiếng than khóc kêu la.

20và chưa tròn trăm tuổi mà chết là bị nguyền rủa.

21sẽ trồng nho và được ăn trái.

22và những kẻ Ta chọn sẽ được hưởng kết quả do tay chúng làm.

23bản thân chúng cũng như cả nòi giống.

24chúng hãy còn đang nói thì Ta đã nghe rồi.

25*trên khắp núi thánh của Ta*.” ĐỨC CHÚA phán như vậy.