Isaiah 65:3

They are a people who continually offend me, 1 offering sacrifices in gardens, and burning incense on brick tiles. 1

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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 spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people, 1 who walk in a way that is not good, who have walked after their own thoughts and plans! 1

4They sit among the graves and keep watch all night, 1 and eat pork with the broth of foul meat in their dishes. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 30:1You must make an altar to burn incense. You must make it with acacia wood.

Deuteronomy 32:16They made Yahweh jealous by their strange gods; 1 with their abominations they angered him. 1

2 Kings 17:14But they would not listen; instead they were very stubborn like their fathers who did not trust in Yahweh their God.

Job 1:11But now stretch out your hand and touch all that he has, and see if he does not curse you to your face.”

Psalms 78:40How often they rebelled against him in the wilderness 1 and grieved him in the barren regions! 1

Isaiah 1:29“For you will be ashamed of the sacred oak trees that you desired, 1 and you will be embarrassed by the gardens that you have chosen. 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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