Isaiah 65:7

\64:8\But now, O Lord, you are our father; we are the earth, and you are our maker; and we are all the work of your hand.

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In The King James Version

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

In Context

6\64:7\And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.

8\64:9\Be not very angry, O Lord, and do not keep our sins in mind for ever: give ear to our prayer, for we are all your people.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

Numbers 32:14And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.

1 Kings 22:44\22:43\but the high places were not taken away: the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.

2 Kings 16:4And he made offerings, burning them in the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.

Psalms 106:6We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

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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