Isaiah 65
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Lutheran reading notes
In Isaiah chapter 65, the prophetic message continues to reveal themes of judgment, repentance, messianic hope, and restoration. Lutheran interpretation often emphasizes the contrast between divine law, which exposes sin, and the promise of grace through God's future redemption. The chapter illustrates both warning and hope within God's covenant relationship.
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I am sought of {them that} asked not {for me}; I am found of {them that} sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation {that} was not called by my name.
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I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way {that was} not good, after their own thoughts;
Isaiah 65:2 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; {upon...: Heb. upon bricks}
Isaiah 65:3 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable {things is in} their vessels; {broth: or, pieces}
Isaiah 65:4 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These {are} a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day. {nose: or, anger}
Isaiah 65:5 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, {it is} written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
Isaiah 65:6 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.
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Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and {one} saith, Destroy it not; for a blessing {is} in it: so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy them all.
Isaiah 65:8 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
Isaiah 65:9 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
Isaiah 65:10 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But ye {are} they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number. {troop: or, Gad} {number: or, Meni, a pagan god}
Isaiah 65:11 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose {that} wherein I delighted not.
Isaiah 65:12 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, my servants shall eat, but ye shall be hungry: behold, my servants shall drink, but ye shall be thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice, but ye shall be ashamed:
Isaiah 65:13 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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Behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for vexation of spirit. {vexation: Heb. breaking}
Isaiah 65:14 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name:
Isaiah 65:15 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.
Isaiah 65:16 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind. {come...: Heb. come upon the heart}
Isaiah 65:17 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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But be ye glad and rejoice for ever {in that} which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.
Isaiah 65:18 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
Isaiah 65:19 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner {being} an hundred years old shall be accursed.
Isaiah 65:20 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And they shall build houses, and inhabit {them}; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
Isaiah 65:21 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree {are} the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. {shall long...: Heb. shall make them continue long, or, shall wear out}
Isaiah 65:22 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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They shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they {are} the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Isaiah 65:23 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
Isaiah 65:24 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.
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The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust {shall be} the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.
Isaiah 65:25 highlights prophetic call to repentance and hope with emphasis on law, gospel, grace, and faith.