--- title: "Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 4" author: "John Calvin" translator: "William Pringle" languages: [en] shelf: "Commentaries" section: 49 of 50 url: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-4/49/ cite: "John Calvin, tr. William Pringle, Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 4, section 49. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-4/49/" --- # Commentary on Isaiah, Volume 4 *John Calvin, tr. William Pringle* Calvin on the prophet Isaiah, volume 4 of 4. ## 49. Chapter 65 Source: https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-4/49/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/john-calvin-commentary-on-isaiah-volume-4/49/#p-N [¶0] 1 I have manifested myself to them that asked not; I have been found by them that sought me not; I said, Behold me, behold me, To a nation that called not on my name. [¶1] 2 I have stretched out my hands every day To a rebellious people, Walking in a way not good, After their own thoughts. [¶2] 3 A people that provoketh me always to my face, That sacrifieth in gardens, And offereth incense on bricks: [¶3] 4 Who dwell in the graves; Who pass the night in the deserts; Who eat swines flesh; And broth of unclean things is in their vessels: [¶4] 5 Who say, Remain by thyself; Approach not to me; For I would sanctify thee; Those shall be smoke in my fury, A fire that burneth all the day. [¶5] 6 Behold! it is written before me; I will not be silent from rendering And recompensing into their bosom, [¶6] 7 Your iniquities, And the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah. Because they have offered incense on the mountains, And have dishonored me on the hills, Therefore I will measure back their ancient work, Into their bosom. [¶7] 8 Thus saith Jehovah: As if one should find a grape in a cluster, And should say, Destroy it not, For a blessing is in it; So will I do for the sake of my servants, That I may not destroy the whole. [¶8] 9 And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, And out of Judah the heir of my mountains; And mine elect shall possess it by inheritance; And my servants shall dwell there. [¶9] 10 And Sharon shall be an abode of flocks, And the valley of Achor a place for herds to lie down in, To my people who have sought me. [¶10] 11 But ye are forsakers of Jehovah, Who forget the mountain of my holiness, Who prepare a table for the army, And fill an oblation to the number. [¶11] 12 Therefore I will number you to the sword, And ye all shall be cut down by slaughter; Because I called, And ye answered not; I spoke, And ye heard not; And ye did evil before mine eyes, And chose the things in which I took no pleasure. [¶12] 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold! my servants shall eat, And ye shall be hungry; Behold! my servants shall drink, And ye shall be thirsty; Behold! my servants shall rejoice, And ye shall be covered with shame. [¶13] 14 Behold! my servants shall shout for gladness of heart; And ye shall cry aloud for grief of heart, And shall howl for anguish of spirit. [¶14] 15 And ye shall leave your name for a curse to mine elect; The Lord Jehovah shall slay you, And shall call his servants by another name. [¶15] 16 He who blesseth himself in the earth Shall bless himself in the faithful God; And he who sweareth in the earth Shall swear by the faithful God; For the former afflictions, Are surrendered to forgetfulness, And hidden from mine eyes. [¶16] 17 For, behold! I will create, New heavens And a new earth; The former shall not be remembered, Igor come into mind. [¶17] 18 But rejoice And be glad for ever, In the things which I create; For, behold! I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, And her people a joy. [¶18] 19 And I will be glad in Jerusalem, And will rejoice in my people; And the voice of weeping shall no more be heard in her, Nor the voice of crying. [¶19] 20 There shall be no more there an infant of days, Nor an old man that fulfilleth not his days; For the son of a hundred years shall die young; And the sinner who is the son of a hundred years shall be accursed. [¶20] 21 They shall build houses, And shall inhabit them; They shall plant vines, And shall eat the fruit of them. [¶21] 22 They shall not build that another may inhabit; They shall not plant that another may eat; For according to the days of a tree Shall be the days of my people; And mine elect shall perpetually enjoy, The work of their hands. [¶22] 23 They shall not toil in vain; And they shall not bring forth in terror; For the seed of the blessed of Jehovah shall they be, And their offspring with them. [¶23] 24 And it shall be, before they cry, I will listen; While they are yet speaking, I will hear. [¶24] 25 The wolf And the lamb shall feed together; And the lion shall eat straw like the ox; And the serpent shall have dust for his food. They shall not destroy, And shall not hurt, In all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.