Isaiah 65:5
They tell others, “Keep your distance! Don't come close to me as I'm too holy to be touched by you!” These people are like smoke in my nostrils, a stink burning all day long!
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4They spend the night among the graves and in caves, eating pork and cooking other unclean meats.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 29:20The Lord would never want to pardon them. In fact, his passionate anger will burn against them, and every curse written in this book will fall on them. The Lord will erase their name from the earth,
Proverbs 6:16There are six things that the Lord hates, seven things that he absolutely detests:
Proverbs 16:5The Lord hates the arrogant. You can be certain of this: the wicked won't go unpunished.
Luke 5:30“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Luke 15:2As a result the Pharisees and the religious teachers complained, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”
Luke 18:9He also told this story about those who are so sure that they are living right, and who put everybody else down.
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 →