Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out My hands all the day || To an apostate people, || Who are going in the way [that is] not good, || After their own thoughts.

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

1“I have been inquired of by those who did not ask, || I have been found by those who did not seek Me, || I have said, Behold Me, behold Me, || To a nation not calling on My Name.

3The people who are continually provoking Me to anger, || To My face, || Sacrificing in gardens, and making incense on the bricks:

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Cross References

Numbers 15:39and it has been to you for a fringe, and you have seen it, and have remembered all the commands of YHWH, and have done them, and you do not search after your heart and after your eyes, after which you are going whoring,

Deuteronomy 29:19and it has been, in his hearing the words of this oath, that he has blessed himself in his heart, saying, I have peace, though I go on in the stubbornness of my heart—in order to sweep away the watered with the thirsty.

Psalms 36:4He devises iniquity on his bed, || He stations himself on a way not good, || He does not refuse evil.”

Psalms 81:11But My people did not listen to My voice, || And Israel has not consented to Me.

Proverbs 16:29A violent man entices his neighbor, || And causes him to go in a way [that is] not good.

Isaiah 1:23Your princes [are] apostates, and companions of thieves, || Everyone loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, || They do not judge the fatherless, || And the plea of the widow does not come to them.

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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