Yasha'Yahu (Isaiah) — 66
True Worship and False
1 This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar, Shamaym is my throne, and the Arath is my footstool, Could you build me a temple as good as that? Could you build me such a resting place?
2 My hands have made both Shamaym and the Arath; they and everything in them are mine. I 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH have spoken! “I will barak those who have humble and contrite hearts, who tremble at my Dabar.
3 But those who choose their own ways, delighting in their detestable sins, will not have their offerings accepted, when such people sacrifice a bull, it is no more acceptable than a man's sacrifice, When they sacrifice a lamb, it is as though they had sacrificed a dog! When they bring an offering of grain, they might as well offer the blood of a pig, When they burn frankincense, it is as if they had baraked an idol.
4 I will send them great trouble, all the things they feared, For when I called, they did not answer, when I spoke, they did not listen, They deliberately sinned before my very eyes and chose to do what they know I despise.”
5 Hear this message from 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, all you who tremble at His Dabar: “Your own people hate you and throw you out for the sake of my Name, ‘Let 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH be honored!’ they scoff at you, do not mind them, ‘Keep being joyful in 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH!’ But they that laugh at you will be put to shame.
6 What is all the commotion in the city? What is that terrible noise from the Temple? It is the voice of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH taking vengeance against His enemies.
7 “Before the birth pains even begin, Yahushalam gives birth to a son.
8 Who has ever seen anything as strange as this? Who ever heard of such a thing? Has a nation ever been born in a single day? Has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Yahushalam’s birth pains begin, her children will be born.
9 Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not deliver it?” 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is asking.“ No! I would never keep this nation from being born,” says your 𐤀𐤋𐤅𐤄_ALUAH.
10 “Rejoice with Yahushalam! Be glad with her, all you who love her and all you who mourn for her.
11 Drink deeply of her Kabad even as an infant drinks at its mother’s comforting breasts.”
12 This is what 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH Dabar: “I will give Yahushalam a river of Shalum and prosperity, the wealth of the nations will flow to her, and Her children will be nursed at her breasts, carried in her arms, and held on her lap.
13 I will comfort you there in Yahushalam as a mother comforts her child.”
14 When you see these things, your heart will rejoice, You will flourish like the grass! Everyone will see 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH’s hand of Barakah on His servants, and the anger of 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH against His enemies.
15 See, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH is coming with fire, and His swift chariots roar like a whirlwind, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will bring punishment with the fury of his anger and the flaming fire of His hot rebuke.
16 And 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will punish the world by fire and by His sword, 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH will judge the Arath, and many will be killed by Him.
17 “Those who ‘consecrate’ and ‘purify’ themselves in a sacred garden with its idol in the center, feasting on pork and rats and other detestable meats will come to a terrible end,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
18 “I can see what they are doing, and I know what they are thinking, So I will gather all nations and peoples together, and they will see my Kabad.
19 I will perform a sign among them, and I will send those who survive to be messengers to the nations, to Tarshish, to the Libyans and Lydians (who are famous as archers), to Tubal and Greece, and to all the lands beyond the sea that have not heard of my fame or seen my Kabad, there they will declare my Kabad to the nations.
20 They will bring the remnant of your people back from every nation, They will bring them to my Qadash mountain in Yahushalam as an offering to 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, They will ride on horses, in chariots and wagons, and on mules and camels,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
21 “And I will appoint some of them to be my Kuhanym and Lauym. I 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH have spoken!
22 For as the new Shamaym and the new Arath, Which I will make shall remain before ME,” says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH, “the same way your descendants and your name remains with ME.
23 “All mankind will come to worship ME from Shabbat to Shabbat and from New Moon to New moon says 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄_YAHUAH.
24 And as they go out, they will see the dead bodies of those who have rebelled against me, For the worms that devour them will never die, and the fire that burns them will never go out, all who pass by will view them with utter horror.”