Isaiah 66:4

I also will choose their ill-treatments, 1 and will bring their terrors upon them; 1 because when I called, no one did answer; 1 when I spoke, they did not hear; 1 but they did the rah before Mine eyes, 1 and chose that in which I took no pleasure. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

In Context

3He that slaughtereth the bull 1 is the slayer of a man; 1 he that sacrificeth a seh, 1 is a strangler of dogs; 1 he that offereth a minchah, 1 it is dahm chazir; 1 he that burneth incense, 1 blesseth idols. 1 As they have chosen their own ways, 1 and their nefesh delighteth in their shikkutzim (abominations), 1

5Hear the Devar Hashem, 1 ye that tremble at His word; 1 Your achim that hated you, 1 that cast you out from them l'ma'an Shemi, said: 1 Let Hashem get honor, 1 that we may see your simcha. 1 But they shall be ashamed. 1

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Cross References

2 Kings 21:2And he did that which was rah in the eyes of Hashem, after the to'avot of the Goyim, whom Hashem drove out before the Bnei Yisroel.

Psalms 81:12But My people would not pay heed to My voice; 1 and Yisroel would have none of Me. 1

Proverbs 1:31Therefore shall they eat of the p'ri (fruit) of their own derech, 1 and be filled with their own mo'atzot (schemes, devices). 1

Isaiah 50:2Why, when I came, was there no ish (man [at all] to respond)? 1 When I called, was there none to answer? 1 Is My Yad too short, that it cannot redeem? 1 Or have I no ko'ach (power) to save? 1 Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the yam (sea), 1 I make the neharot (rivers) a midbar (desert); 1 their dag (fish) stink, because there is no mayim, 1 and die of tzama (thirst). 1

Isaiah 65:2I have spread out My yad kol hayom 1 unto an Am Sorer (stubbornly rebellious people), 1 which walketh in a derech lo tov, 1 after their own machshevot (thoughts); 1

Isaiah 65:12Therefore will I destine you for the cherev, 1 and ye shall all bow down to the slaughtering place; 1 because when I called, ye did not answer; 1 when I spoke, ye did not hear; 1 but did the rah before Mine eyes, 1 and did choose that wherein I delighted not. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 66:2-5

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he… Read the whole commentary →

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