Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 65

Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 65

I was prepared to be sought out by those
who did not ask, to be found out by those
who did not seek me. I said, “Here I am,”
and “Here I am,” again, I said to them,
a nation that did not call out my name.
How long I held my hands out: the whole day,
a people who’re rebellious, to them,
that is not good, who’re walking in a way,
who’re following their own devices, thus;
a people who provoke me to my face
unceasingly, who offer sacrifice
in gardens and they, incense, burn, on bricks;
who, inside tombs, sit, and will spend the night
in secret places; who will eat the swine’s
flesh that’s boiled with the broth of carrion;
who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near
me, lest my holiness, to you, adheres.”
Such words are smoke my nostrils cannot breathe,
they’re like a fire that’s all day smoldering.
This written record is, before me, placed:
I won’t keep silent but I will repay
all your iniquities, and the same way,
your ancestors’, their guilt, the LORD thus says;
because they, on the mountains, sacrificed,
and on the hills was where they, me, reviled,
I’ll measure out full payment in their laps;
I will repay them for their loathsome acts.
Thus says the LORD, “When there is still some juice
in grapes that have been pressed, there still is good
in them; do not discard them.” What I’ll do,
my servants’ sake, for, I shall not destroy
them all.  From Jacob, I will bring them forth,
descendants, and from Judah, too, of course,
I’ll bring heirs who my mountains will possess;
they will inherit it, those whom I chose
and there’s where servants, my, will dwell, the place.
For flocks, a pasture, Sharon shall be found,
and Achor’s Valley, as a feeding ground
for cattle; to my people, they’ll belong,
those who have sought me.  But you who forsake
the LORD, who will forget my mountain place
that’s holy, those who, for the god of Fate,
a table, spread, and fill the cups with wine
that’s, for her, Destiny, mixed up with spice,
you, I will destine to the sword and all
of you shall, to the slaughter, downwards bow
because you did not answer when I called
and when I spoke, my words, you did not know,
but you did what was evil in my sight,
and chose, what I did not, in, to delight.
Therefore thus says the LORD God: They shall eat,
my servants, but how hunger, you will feel;
thirst, you will have, while, servants, my, will drink;
my servants shall rejoice but only shame
is what you’ll feel; my servants, they will sing
for gladness in their hearts but only pain,
you’ll feel, your heart, in, and you’ll outwards cry
in anguish of your spirit, you shall wail.
How, to my chosen, your name is supplied
to be used as a curse.  How he will slay
you, the LORD God, but by another name,
my servants shall be called.  Then anyone
who will, a blessing, on himself, intone,
will do so by God whose name is “Amen,”
for all the troubles of the past have been
forgotten; they have vanished from my sight.

For, I’m about, new heavens, to create,
and a new earth, and all the former things
shall not, remembered, be, or come to mind.
Rejoice and be forever, with delight,
filled up at everything that I create
for I, Jerusalem, am to, about,
create, a joy, as, and, as a delight,
its people.  In Jerusalem, I will
rejoice, and, in my people, I’ll delight;
no more shall weeping’s sound be heard in it
or, of distress, the cry.  No more shall be
there children who will die in infancy
or, who won’t live full lives, the elderly;
for who will live a hundred years will be,
a youth, considered, and who doesn’t see
a hundred years, as cursed, they are perceived.
They shall build houses and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards, and, the fruit, consume.
They shall not build to see another take
from them as, of their own, a dwelling place;
they shall not plant and see another eat,
for, like those of a tree, how they shall be,
my people’s days, and they shall long enjoy,
my chosen, all the work their hands employ.
In vain, they shall not labor, nor conceive
their children only for calamity,
for they, blessed by the LORD, shall, offspring, be–
and their descendants for eternity.
Before they call, an answer, I will give,
While they are speaking, yet, my ear perceives.
The wolf and lamb together, they will feed;
just like the ox, straw, what the lion eats,
but not the serpent–dust, its food shall be!
No hurt nor harm, no one will be destroyed
on all my holy mountain, says the LORD.