Isaiah 65:3
These people are always making me angry, because they present sacrifices to idols in their sacred gardens, and offer incense on pagan altars made of brick.
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4They spend the night among the graves and in caves, eating pork and cooking other unclean meats.
Cross References
Exodus 30:1“Make from acacia wood an altar for burning incense.
Deuteronomy 32:16You made the Lord jealous by worshiping foreign gods; you made him angry with such disgusting practices.
2 Kings 17:14But they refused to listen, and they were as stubborn as their forefathers who did not trust the Lord their God.
Job 1:11But if you reach out and take everything he has, he will definitely curse you to your face.”
Psalms 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness, giving him grief in the desert!
Isaiah 1:29You will be ashamed about how you enjoyed your pagan worship among the oak trees; you will be embarrassed because you chose the pleasure gardens of idols.
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 →