3A people who continually provoke Me to My face,
         Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;

4Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places;
         Who eat swine’s flesh,
         And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

5“Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
         For I am holier than you!’
         These are smoke in My nostrils,
         A fire that burns all the day.

6“Behold, it is written before Me,
         I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
         I will even repay into their bosom,

7Both their own iniquities and the iniquities of their fathers together,” says the LORD.
         “Because they have burned incense on the mountains
         And scorned Me on the hills,
         Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”

      8Thus says the LORD,
         “As the new wine is found in the cluster,
         And one says, ‘Do not destroy it, for there is benefit in it,’
         So I will act on behalf of My servants
         In order not to destroy all of them.

9“I will bring forth offspring from Jacob,
         And an heir of My mountains from Judah;
         Even My chosen ones shall inherit it,
         And My servants will dwell there.

10“Sharon will be a pasture land for flocks,
         And the valley of Achor a resting place for herds,
         For My people who seek Me.

11“But you who forsake the LORD,
         Who forget My holy mountain,
         Who set a table for Fortune,
         And who fill cups with mixed wine for Destiny,

12I will destine you for the sword,
         And all of you will bow down to the slaughter.
         Because I called, but you did not answer;
         I spoke, but you did not hear.
         And you did evil in My sight
         And chose that in which I did not delight.”

      13Therefore, thus says the Lord GOD,
         “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 put to shame.

14“Behold, My servants will shout joyfully with a glad heart,
         But you will cry out with a heavy heart,
         And you will wail with a broken spirit.

15“You will leave your name for a curse to My chosen ones,
         And the Lord GOD will slay you.
         But My servants will be called by another name.

16“Because he who is blessed in the earth
         Will be blessed by 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 sight!

New Heavens and a New Earth

17“For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth;
         And the former things will not be remembered or come to mind.

18“But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create;
         For behold, I create Jerusalem for rejoicing
         And her people for gladness.

19“I will also rejoice in Jerusalem and be glad in My people;
         And there will no longer be heard in her
         The voice of weeping and the sound of crying.

20“No longer will there be in it an infant who lives but a few days,
         Or an old man who does not live out his days;
         For the youth will die at the age of one hundred
         And the one who does not reach the age of one hundred
         Will be thought accursed.

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

22“They will not build and another inhabit,
         They will not plant and another eat;
         For as the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people,
         And My chosen ones will wear out the work of their hands.

23“They will not labor in vain,
         Or bear children for calamity;
         For they are the offspring of those blessed by the LORD,
         And their descendants with them.

24“It will also come to pass that before they call, I will answer; and while they are still speaking, I will hear. 25“The wolf and the lamb will graze together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox; and dust will be the serpent’s food. They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.

NASB ©1995

American Standard Version
a people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

Douay-Rheims Bible
A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Darby Bible Translation
the people that provoke me to anger continually to my face, sacrificing in gardens and burning incense upon the bricks;

English Revised Version
a people that provoketh me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

Webster's Bible Translation
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

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

Young's Literal Translation
The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks: 'The God of the Amen'
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Alexander Maclaren—Expositions of Holy Scripture

God Rejoicing in the New Creation
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Charles Haddon Spurgeon—Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 37: 1891

Early Lessons in the Life of Faith
"I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications."--Psalm 116:1. WHEN a very little child, so young I can remember nothing earlier, a severe thunderstorm passed over our home. Terrified, I ran to my mother, who placed my hands together, and pointing upward repeated over and over again the one word "Jesus." More than fifty years have passed since that day, but the impression left upon my child-mind, of a Being invisible but able to hear and help, has never been effaced. * …
Rosalind Goforth—How I Know God Answers Prayer

Baptism of Kallihirua
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Thomas Boyles Murray—Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian,

Why Has Only one Apocalypse Been Able to Keep Its Place in the New Testament? Why not Several --Or None at All?
In answering this question [104] we may suitably take the Muratorian Fragment as our starting-point. At the close of its positive section occurs a paragraph which may be paraphrased as follows: "We also accept Apocalypses, but only two, those of John and Peter; yet the latter is rejected by a minority among us. The Shepherd of Hermas ought not to be spoken of as a part of the Canon either now or at any future time; for it was written only lately in our own times in Rome under the Bishop Pius, the …
Adolf Harnack—The Origin of the New Testament

The Sun Rising Upon a Dark World
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John Newton—Messiah Vol. 1

Parable of the Pharisee and Publican.
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J. W. McGarvey—The Four-Fold Gospel

Book ix. Epistle i. To Januarius, Bishop of Caralis (Cagliari).
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Saint Gregory the Great—the Epistles of Saint Gregory the Great

Another Wonderful Record of 25.
A Christian minister, living in Northern Indiana, was in want, and knelt in prayer again and again before his Father in heaven. His quarterly allowance had been withheld, and want stared him in the face. Constrained by urgent need, and shut up to God for help, he pleaded repeatedly for a supply of his temporal wants. Now see how extraordinary was the plan of the Lord to send relief. "In one of the lovely homes of Massachusetts, while the snow was falling and the winds were howling without, a lady …
Various—The Wonders of Prayer

The Scriptures
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Thomas Watson—A Body of Divinity

Election Confirmed by the Calling of God. The Reprobate Bring Upon Themselves the Righteous Destruction to which they are Doomed.
1. The election of God is secret, but is manifested by effectual calling. The nature of this effectual calling. How election and effectual calling are founded on the free mercy of God. A cavil of certain expositors refuted by the words of Augustine. An exception disposed of. 2. Calling proved to be free, 1. By its nature and the mode in which it is dispensed. 2. By the word of God. 3. By the calling of Abraham, the father of the faithful. 4. By the testimony of John. 5. By the example of those who …
John Calvin—The Institutes of the Christian Religion

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