Isaiah 65:2

+ 65:2. MP: Messiah reaches out to rebellious Israel. (John 5:37-40) I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, + 65:2. Quoted in Rom 10:21 2 who walk in a way that is not good, 2 after their own thoughts; 2 don’t come near to me, 1

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In The King James Version

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;

In Context

1+ 65:1. MP: Messiah will be sought for and found by the Gentile nations who did not seek him. (Acts 13:48; Rom 10:20, 11:25) “I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. 2 I am found by those who didn’t seek me. + 65:1. Quoted in Rom 10:20 2 I said, ‘See me, behold me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name. 1

3a people who provoke me to my face continually, 2 sacrificing in gardens, 2 and burning incense on bricks; 1

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Cross References

Numbers 15:39and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all Adonai’s mitzvot ·instructions·, and do them; + 15:39. Num 15:39 (#1.29): Not to stray after thoughts of the heart and sights of the eyes and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;

Deuteronomy 29:19and it happen, when he sh'ma ·hears obeys· the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”

Psalms 36:4He plots vain striving of iniquity on his bed. 2 He sets himself in a way that is not good. 2 He does not abhor evil. 1

Psalms 81:11But my people didn’t sh'ma ·hear obey· my voice. 2 Israel [God prevails] desired none of me. 1

Proverbs 16:29A man of violence entices his neighbor, 2 and leads him in a way that is not good. 1

Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves. 2 Everyone 'ahav ·affectionately loves· bribes, and follows after rewards. 2 They don’t judge the orphan, 2 neither does the cause of the widow come to them. 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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