Isaiah 66 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Isaiah 66The Worship God Demands

1 says the Lord.

But this is the one to whom I will look,

to the humble and contrite in spirit

who trembles at my word.

3 shall flourish like the grass,

and it shall be known that the power of the Lord is with his servants,

and his indignation is against his enemies.

15

to vent his anger in fury

and his rebuke in flames of fire.

16 their works and their thoughts. I am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they shall come and shall see my glory,

19 and Lud, to Meshech, Tubal, and Javan, to the coastlands far away that have not heard of my fame or seen my glory, and they shall declare my glory among the nations.

20Isa 52.11; 60.4; 65.11, 25They shall bring all your kindred from all the nations as an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in chariots, and in litters, and on mules, and on dromedaries, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, just as the Israelites bring a grain offering in a clean vessel to the house of the Lord.

21Isa 61.6; 1 Pet 2.5, 9And I will also take some of them as priests and as Levites, says the Lord.

22 Isa 56.5; 65.17, 22, 23; 2 Pet 3.13; Rev 21.1 For as the new heavens and the new earth,

which I will make,

shall remain before me, says the Lord,

so shall your descendants and your name remain.

23 Isa 1.13, 14; 49.7 From new moon to new moon

and from Sabbath to Sabbath,

all flesh shall come to worship before me, says the Lord.

24 Isa 1.31; 5.25; 24.20; Dan 12.2; Mk 9.48 And they shall go out and look at the dead bodies of the people who have rebelled against me, for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh.