Rhyming Isaiah, Chapter 66 Thus says the LORD: the heavens are my throne, and as my footstool, how the earth is known. What is the house that you would build for me; where is it that my resting place will be? All of these things are what may hands have made, the LORD says, when all of them, to be, came, then they were mine. But I consider him, the humble man for whom I have regard, he who’s oppressed, who trembles at my word. Some slaughter oxen, or they might, a man, some strangle dogs, or sacrifice a lamb, whoever brings an offering of grain is like him who brings blood, that of a swine, who, in memorial burns frankincense is just like him who will, an idol, bless. These people who have chosen their own ways, delight in their abominations, take. I too will take delight in mocking them. I’ll bring about the things that they most dread because when I called, no one answered me, when I spoke, my words, they did not perceive, but they did what was evil in my sight and chose to do those things that I despise. Hear, of the LORD, the word, you who revere his word: Your fellow countrymen who bear hostility to you, and who, you, spurn, for my name’s sake have said, words, these “Let him, the LORD, be glorified so we may see your joy,” but it is they who’ll be, to shame, put, there, it’s how they will be found. Now hear them, from the city, uproar’s sounds! The temple, from, a voice, that of the LORD! His voice deals to his foes their just rewards. She gave birth without laboring before; before her pain, to her, a son was born. Whoever heard of anything like this? A thing like this lacks any witnesses. How can a nation be born in a day? In just an instant, can one, in that way be brought to birth, a country? Yet as soon as Zion was in labor, from her womb, she, children, brought forth. Shall I bring her to the point of labor and deliver, not? the LORD says; shall I be the one who shuts the womb, I who deliver? says your God. Jerusalem, rejoice with, and be glad, all you who love her, share her joy with all your heart, you who for her once spread the pall– that you might nurse and would be satisfied from her consoling breast; that, with delight, you, deeply, might drink from her milk supply. For thus the LORD says, I shall make it flow, prosperity, just like a river, o’er her, and the wealth of nations like a stream that overflows, and her babes, in her arms, will, carried, be, and dandled on her knees. Just as a mother comforts him, her child, so shall I comfort you, and you will find that in Jerusalem, you’re comforted. How you shall see,and your heart shall rejoice; your bodies, they shall flourish like the grass; and then the LORD will make his power known among his servants, and, to all his foes, his indignation, he will clearly show. For how the LORD is coming? It’s in fire, and chariots, his, are, a whirlwind, like, to pay his anger back in fury, great, and his rebuke, of fire, in its full flames. For it’s by fire, the LORD will judge that way, and by his sword, all mankind, he will strain, and many are the ones the LORD would slay. Those who, for garden-rites, will consecrate themselves and purify themselves, that way, who follow him who’s in a magic ring, who eat the flesh of pigs, revolting things, and rats: it is their ends that they shall meet, the LORD says, for I know their thoughts and deeds. I come to, every nation, gather them, of every language, how it is they’ll come, and see my glory. I will set a sign on them. From those of them who will survive, I’ll send them to these nations they will find, to Tarshish, Put, and Lud–who draw the bow– to them, both Tubal, Javan, they will know, to distant coastlands that are far away, to places where they’ve never known my fame, or seen my glory, and they shall proclaim my glory ‘mongst the nations. They shall bring your kindred, to the LORD, as offering, from nations, all, on horses, chariots, on mules, on camel back, and drawn in carts, Jerusalem, to, holy mountain, my, the LORD says, just like how the Israelites bring a grain offering that’s in one, clean, a vessel to the LORD’s house, where he’s seen. And I will also take some of them as both priests and also Levites, the LORD says. For as the heavens, new, and the new earth, which I make shall, before me, persevere, the LORD says, so shall both of them remain: both your descendants and as well your name. From new moon to new moon, and then until, from Sabbath to next Sabbath, all flesh shall come to, before me, worship, the LORD says. And they’ll go out and look upon the dead, the bodies of the people who rebelled against me, for their worm, die, never shall, nor ever shall the burning fire be quenched. They will be an abhorrence to all flesh.
