Isaiah 65:13-14

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65:13 So this is what the sovereign Lord says:

“Look, my servants will eat, but you will be hungry!

Look, my servants will drink, but you will be thirsty!

Look, my servants will rejoice, but you will be humiliated!

65:14 Look, my servants will shout for joy as happiness fills their hearts!¹

But you will cry out as sorrow fills your hearts;²

you will wail because your spirits will be crushed.³

Isaiah 65:18-19

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65:18 But be happy and rejoice forevermore

over what I am about to create!

For look, I am ready to create Jerusalem⁴ to be a source of joy,⁵

and her people to be a source of happiness.⁶

65:19 Jerusalem will bring me joy,

and my people will bring me happiness.⁷

The sound of weeping or cries of sorrow

will never be heard in her again.

[65:14] ¹tn Heb “from the good of the heart.”

[65:14] ²tn Heb “from the pain of the heart.”

[65:14] ³tn Heb “from the breaking of the spirit.”

[65:18] ⁵tn Heb “Jerusalem, joy.” The next verse suggests the meaning: The Lord will create Jerusalem to be a source of joy to himself.

[65:18] ⁶tn Heb “her people, happiness.” See the preceding note.

[65:19] ⁷tn Heb “and I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and be happy in my people.”