Isaiah 66:2
All day my hands have been stretched out to an uncontrolled people, who go in an evil way, after the purposes of their hearts;
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3A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.
Cross References
Genesis 1:1At the first God made the heaven and the earth.
2 Kings 22:10Then Shaphan the scribe said to the king, Hilkiah the priest has given me a book; and he was reading it before the king.
2 Kings 22:19Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.
Ezra 9:4Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.
Psalms 34:18\34:17\The cry of the upright comes before the Lord, and he takes them out of all their troubles.
Psalms 51:19\51:17\The offerings of God are a broken spirit; a broken and sorrowing heart, O God, you will not put from you.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 66:2-5
The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he… Read the whole commentary →