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Isaiah 66:16-18
Contemporary English Version

16 The Lord's fiery sword
    will bring justice
everywhere on this earth
    and execute many people.

A Threat and a Promise

17 Some of you get yourselves ready and go to a garden to worship a foreign goddess.[a] You eat the meat of pigs, lizards, and mice. But I, the Lord, will destroy you for this.

18 I know everything you do and think! The time has now come[b] to bring together the people of every language and nation and to show them my glory

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Footnotes

  1. 66.17 Some … goddess: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
  2. 66.18 I … come: One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.
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