Isaiah 65:3

This is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

In Context

2I have stretched forth my hands all day to a disobedient and gainsaying people, to them that walked in a way that was not good, but after their sins.

4They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine’s flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1And thou shalt make the altar of incense of incorruptible wood.

Deuteronomy 32:16They provoked me to anger with strange gods; 1 With their abominations they bitterly angered me. 1

2 Kings 17:14But they hearkened not, and made their neck harder than the neck of their fathers.

Job 1:11But put forth thy hand, and touch all that he has: 1 Verily he will curse thee to thy face. 1

Isaiah 1:29For they shall be ashamed of their idols, which they delighted in, and they are made ashamed of the gardens which they coveted.

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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