1This is what the LORD says:
2Has not My hand made all these things?66:2 Cited in Acts 7:49–50
3Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man;
4So I will choose their punishment
5You who tremble at His word,
6Hear the uproar from the city;
7“Before she was in labor, she gave birth;
8Who has heard of such as this?
9Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?”
10Be glad for Jerusalem and rejoice over her,
11so that you may nurse and be satisfied
12For this is what the LORD says:
13As a mother comforts her son,
14When you see, you will rejoice,
15For behold, the LORD will come with fire—
16For by fire and by His sword,
17“Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves—to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats—will perish together,” declares the LORD.
18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming 66:18 Literally And I, their deeds and their thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
19I will establish a sign among them, and I will send survivors from among them to the nations—to Tarshish, Put, and the archers of Lud; to Tubal, Javan, and the islands 66:19 Or coastlands far away who have not heard of My fame or seen My glory.
20And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
21“And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
22“For just as the new heavens and the new earth,66:22 LXX the new heaven and the new earth; see also Isaiah 65:17 and Revelation 21:1.
23From one New Moon to another
24“As they go forth, they will see the corpses