Isaiah 65:6

Behold, it is written before me: I will not be silent until I have recompensed into their bosom,

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,

In Context

5who say, Depart from me, draw not nigh to me, for I am pure. This is the smoke of my wrath, a fire burns with it continually.

7their sins and the sins of their fathers, saith the Lord, who have burned incense on the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: I will recompense their works into their bosom.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14And the Lord said to Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and speak this in the ears of Joshua; for I will utterly blot out the memorial of Amalek from under heaven.

Psalms 50:3Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy great mercy; 1 And according to the multitude of thy compassions blot out my transgression. 1

Psalms 56:8My heart, O God, is ready, 1 My heart is ready: I will sing, yea will sing psalms. 1

Isaiah 42:14I have been silent: shall I also always be silent and forbear? I have endured like a travailing woman: I will now amaze and wither at once.

Jeremiah 16:18And I will recompense their mischiefs doubly, and their sins, whereby they have profaned my land with the carcasses of their abominations, and with their iniquities, whereby they have trespassed against mine inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:31So I have poured out my wrath upon her in the fury of mine anger, to accomplish it. I have recompensed their ways on their own heads, saith the Lord God.

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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