Isaiah 65:7

Your avonot, and the iniquities 1 of your avot together, saith Hashem, 1 because they burned sacrifices upon the mountains, 1 and insulted Me upon the hills; 1 therefore will I measure 1 their former peulot into their kheyk. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the LORD, which have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills: therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

In Context

6Hinei, it is written before Me: 1 I will not keep silent, but will recompense fully, 1 even recompense into their kheyk, 1

8Thus saith Hashem: 1 As the tirosh is found in the cluster, 1 and one saith: Destroy it not; 1 for a brocha is in it; 1 so will I do in behalf of My Servants, 1 that I may not destroy them all. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5Thou shalt not tishtacheveh to them, nor serve them; for I Hashem Eloheicha am an El kanna, visiting the avon Avot upon the Banim unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate Me;

Numbers 32:14And, hinei, ye are risen up in the place of Avoteichem a brood of anashim chatta'im to add even more to charon af Hashem against Yisroel.

1 Kings 22:44nevertheless the high places (places of pagan worship) were not taken away; for HaAm offered and burned incense yet in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4Howbeit the + 14:4 idolatrous high places were not taken away; as yet HaAm did offer zevakhim and burn ketoret on the high places.

2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and burnt ketoret in the + 16:4 idolatrous high places, and on the geva'ot, and under every spreading tree.

Psalms 106:6We have sinned with Avoteinu, 1 we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly. 1

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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