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These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day." },{ "n": 6, "refId": "ISA-65:6", "verseRef": "Isa.65.6", "text": "Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, yea, I will recompense into their bosom," },{ "n": 7, "refId": "ISA-65:7", "verseRef": "Isa.65.7", "text": "your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom." },{ "n": 8, "refId": "ISA-65:8", "verseRef": "Isa.65.8", "text": "Thus saith Jehovah, 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` sake, that I may not destroy them all." },{ "n": 9, "refId": "ISA-65:9", "verseRef": "Isa.65.9", "text": "And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there." },{ "n": 10, "refId": "ISA-65:10", "verseRef": "Isa.65.10", "text": "And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me." },{ "n": 11, "refId": "ISA-65:11", "verseRef": "Isa.65.11", "text": "But ye that forsake Jehovah, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for Fortune, and that fill up mingled wine unto Destiny;" },{ "n": 12, "refId": "ISA-65:12", "verseRef": "Isa.65.12", "text": "I will destine 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 ye did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not." },{ "n": 13, "refId": "ISA-65:13", "verseRef": "Isa.65.13", "text": "Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, 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 put to shame;" },{ "n": 14, "refId": "ISA-65:14", "verseRef": "Isa.65.14", "text": "behold, my servants shall sing for joy of heart, but ye shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall wail for vexation of spirit." },{ "n": 15, "refId": "ISA-65:15", "verseRef": "Isa.65.15", "text": "And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his servants by another name:" },{ "n": 16, "refId": "ISA-65:16", "verseRef": "Isa.65.16", "text": "so 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." },{ "n": 17, "refId": "ISA-65:17", "verseRef": "Isa.65.17", "text": "For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth; and the former things shall not be remembered, nor come into mind." },{ "n": 18, "refId": "ISA-65:18", "verseRef": "Isa.65.18", "text": "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." },{ "n": 19, "refId": "ISA-65:19", "verseRef": "Isa.65.19", "text": "And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying." },{ "n": 20, "refId": "ISA-65:20", "verseRef": "Isa.65.20", "text": "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 a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed." },{ "n": 21, "refId": "ISA-65:21", "verseRef": "Isa.65.21", "text": "And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them." },{ "n": 22, "refId": "ISA-65:22", "verseRef": "Isa.65.22", "text": "They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree shall be the days of my people, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands." },{ "n": 23, "refId": "ISA-65:23", "verseRef": "Isa.65.23", "text": "They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for calamity; for they are the seed of the blessed of Jehovah, and their offspring with them." },{ "n": 24, "refId": "ISA-65:24", "verseRef": "Isa.65.24", "text": "And it shall come to pass that, before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear." },{ "n": 25, "refId": "ISA-65:25", "verseRef": "Isa.65.25", "text": "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent`s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah." } ] }, "links": { "self": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/65", "book": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/", "chapters": "/v1/library/books/isaiah/chapters/", "library": "/v1/library/", "schema": "/v1/schema/book/" } }