19 We have become like those You never ruled over,
like those not called by Your name.(A)

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19 We are yours from of old;
    but you have not ruled over them,
    they have not been called[a] by your name.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 63:19 Or We are like those you have never ruled, / like those never called

The Lord’s Response

65 “I was sought by those who did not ask;[a]
I was found by those who did not seek Me.
I said: Here I am, here I am,
to a nation that was not called by[b] My name.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:1 LXX, Syr, DSS, Tg read ask for Me
  2. Isaiah 65:1 LXX, Syr, DSS, Tg, Vg read that did not call on

Judgment and Salvation

65 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me;
    I was found by those who did not seek me.(A)
To a nation(B) that did not call on my name,(C)
    I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’

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12 so that they may possess
the remnant of Edom(A)
and all the nations
that are called by My name[a](B)
this is the Lord’s declaration—

He will do this.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:12 LXX reads so that the remnant of man and all the nations . . . may seek [Me]; Ac 15:17

12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom(A)
    and all the nations that bear my name,[a](B)
declares the Lord, who will do these things.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me

17 so the rest of humanity
may seek the Lord—
even all the Gentiles
who are called by My name,
declares the Lord who does these things,

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17 that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
    even all the Gentiles who bear my name,
says the Lord, who does these things’[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. Acts 15:17 Amos 9:11,12 (see Septuagint)