Isaiah 65:3

a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks,

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

In Context

2I have spread out my hands all the day to a disobedient and (LXX/NT) rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, according to their own thoughts,

4who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places, who eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels,

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1And thou shall make an altar to burn incense upon. Thou shall make it of acacia wood.

Deuteronomy 32:16They moved him to jealousy with strange [gods]. With abominations they provoked him to anger.

2 Kings 17:14Notwithstanding, they would not hear, but stiffened their neck, like the neck of their fathers who did not believed in LORD their God.

Job 1:11But put forth thy hand now, and touch all that he has, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

Psalms 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, and grieved him in the desert!

Isaiah 1:29For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 65:2-8

The Conversion of the Gentiles; The Wickedness of the Jews; The Rejection of the Jews. ( b. c. 706.) 1 I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name. 2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; 3 A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars… Read the whole commentary →

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