Isaiah 65:3
The people who are continually provoking Me to anger, || To My face, || Sacrificing in gardens, and making incense on the bricks:
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Exodus 30:1“And you have made an altar [for] making incense; you make it of shittim wood;
Deuteronomy 32:16They make Him zealous with strangers, || They make Him angry with abominations.
2 Kings 17:14and they have not listened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain steadfast in their God YHWH,
Job 1:11You have blessed the work of his hands, and his substance has spread in the land, and yet, put forth Your hand now, and strike against anything that he has—if not, he blesses You to Your face!”
Psalms 78:40How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, || Grieve Him in the desolate place?
Isaiah 1:29For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks || That you have desired, || And you are confounded because of the gardens || That you have chosen.
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 →