Isaiah 65:7
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
6Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.
Cross References
Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:
Numbers 32:14And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.
1 Kings 22:44Nevertheless he took not away the high places: for as Set the people offered sacrifices and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 14:4But this only, that he took not away the high places: for yet the people sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
2 Kings 16:4He sacrificed also and burnt incense in the high places and on the hills, and under every green tree.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity.
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 →