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Isaias 65
Douay-Rheims Bible, Challoner revision (1749–1752), the traditional Catholic English Bible, translated from the Latin Vulgate. If you read a modern Bible, this is the same Scripture in older English; some names are spelled differently (Cesarea for Caesarea, Apocalypse for Revelation). About this translation
1 They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name.
2 I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.
3 A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.
4 That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine’s flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.
5 That say: Depart from me, come not near me, because thou art unclean: these shall be smoke in my anger, a fire burning all the day.
6 Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.
7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.
8 Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.
9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Juda a possessor of my mountains: and my elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.
10 And the plains shall be turned to folds of flocks, and the valley of Achor into a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.
11 And you, that have forsaken the Lord, that have forgotten my holy mount, that set a table for fortune, and offer libations upon it,
12 I will number you in the sword, and you shall all fall by slaughter: because I called and you did not answer: I spoke, and you did not hear: and you did evil in my eyes, and you have chosen the things that displease me.
13 Therefore thus saith the Lord God: Behold my servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: behold my servants shall drink, and you shall be thirsty.
14 Behold my servants shall rejoice, and you shall be confounded: behold my servants shall praise for joyfulness of heart, and you shall cry for sorrow of heart, and shall howl for grief of spirit.
15 And you shall leave your name for an execration to my elect: and the Lord God shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name.
16 In which he that is blessed upon the earth, shall be blessed in God, amen: and he that sweareth in the earth, shall swear by God, amen: because the former distresses are forgotten, and because they are hid from my eyes.
17 For behold I create new heavens, and a new earth: and the former things shall not be in remembrance, and they shall not come upon the heart.
18 But you shall be glad and rejoice for ever in these things, which I create: for behold I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and the people thereof joy.
19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people, and the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, nor the voice of crying.
20 There shall no more be an infant of days there, nor an old man that shall not fill up his days: for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.
21 And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruits of them.
22 They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree, so shall be the days of my people, and the works of their hands shall be of long continuance.
23 My elect shall not labour in vain, nor bring forth in trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord, and their posterity with them.
24 And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will hear; as they are yet speaking, I will hear.
25 The wolf and the lamb shall feed together; the lion and the ox shall eat straw; and dust shall be the serpent’s food: they shall not hurt nor kill in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord.
This chapter in the Catechism and the early Church
Where the Catechism of the Catholic Church cites these verses (from its footnotes on vatican.va), and where the earliest Church Fathers quote them (Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1, public domain). Short quotes only; follow the links for the full text. The Catechism uses modern verse numbers, so these are listed by chapter.
- Isaias 65:1 in modern Bibles
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“I spread out My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who walked in a way that is not good, but follow after their own sins; a people that provoketh Me to anger to My face.”
Quoted in First Apology, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 155), Chapter XLIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“For I was manifest to them that sought Me not; I was found of them that asked not for Me;”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter XXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“It is a people that provoketh Me to my face.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter XXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:2 in modern Bibles
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“And in another prophet He declares, "All day long I have stretched forth My hands to an unbelieving people, and one that gainsays My righteous way.”
Quoted in The Letter of Barnabas, Unknown author (early 2nd century), Chapter XII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“They now ask of me judgment, and dare to draw near to God.”
Quoted in First Apology, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 155), Chapter XXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“And when the Spirit of prophecy speaks from the person of Christ, the utterances are of this sort: "I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who walk in a way that is not good.”
Quoted in First Apology, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 155), Chapter XXXVIII. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:3 in modern Bibles
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“I spread out My hands to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to those who walked in a way that is not good, but follow after their own sins; a people that provoketh Me to anger to My face.”
Quoted in First Apology, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 155), Chapter XLIX. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“For I was manifest to them that sought Me not; I was found of them that asked not for Me;”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter XXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“It is a people that provoketh Me to my face.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter XXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:8 in modern Bibles
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“… the people, saying a little before: As the grape shall be found in the cluster, and they will say, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for My servant's sake: for His sake I will not destroy them all.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXVI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:9 in modern Bibles
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“You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:10 in modern Bibles
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“You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:11 in modern Bibles
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“You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:12 in modern Bibles
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“You shall all fall with a slaughter; for I called you, and you hearkened not, and did evil before me, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter CXXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:16 in modern BiblesCCC 1063
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- CCC 1063 “In the book of the prophet Isaiah, we find the expression "God of truth" (literally "God of the Amen"), that is, the…”
- Isaias 65:17 in modern Bibles
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“They shall not hurt or maltreat each other on the holy mountain, saith the Lord.”
Quoted in Dialogue with Trypho, St. Justin Martyr (c. AD 160), Chapter LXXXI. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… have passed away." Isaiah also declares the very same: "For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and there shall be no remembrance of the former, neither shall the heart think about them, but they shall find in it joy and exultation.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:18 in modern Bibles
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“For as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of the people in thee; for the works of their hands shall endure.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXIV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
“… have passed away." Isaiah also declares the very same: "For there shall be a new heaven and a new earth; and there shall be no remembrance of the former, neither shall the heart think about them, but they shall find in it joy and exultation.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:21 in modern Bibles
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“… glory of God." And when these things are done, he says, "God will remove men far away, and those that are left shall multiply in the earth." "And they shall build houses, and shall inhabit them themselves: and plant vineyards, and eat of them themselves.”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XXXV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
- Isaias 65:22 in modern Bibles
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“passage represented as vivifying our dead bodies, and promising resurrection to them, and resuscitation from their sepulchres and tombs, conferring upon them immortality also (He says, "For as the tree of life, so shall their days be”
Quoted in Against Heresies, Book V, St. Irenaeus of Lyons (c. AD 180), Chapter XV. Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 1
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