Isaiah 65:7

Your iniquities are joined with the iniquities of your fathers, says the Lord. For they have sacrificed upon the mountains, and they have offended me upon the hills. And so, I will measure back to them, from their first work, into their sinews.

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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

6Behold, it has been written in my sight; I will not be silent. Instead, I will render retribution into their sinews.

8Thus says the Lord: In the same way as it is said about a grain found in a cluster, “Do not destroy it, because it is a blessing,” so will I act for the sake of my servants, so that I may not destroy the whole.

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,

Numbers 32:14And behold,” he said, “you have risen up in the place of your fathers, the offshoots and the nurslings of sinful men, in order to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.

1 Kings 22:44Yet truly, he did not take away the high places. For still the people were sacrificing and burning incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4except for this alone: he did not take away the high places. For still the people were immolating, and burning incense, in the high places.

2 Kings 16:4Also, he was immolating victims, and burning incense, in the high places, and on the hills, and under every leafy tree.

Psalms 106:6And they cried out to the Lord in tribulation, and he rescued them in their necessity.

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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