Isaiah 65:6

Look, it is written before me: 1 I will not keep quiet, for I will pay them back; I will repay them into their laps, 1

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

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5They say, 'Stand away, do not come near to me, for I am holier than you.' 1 These things are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day long. 1

7for their sins and the sins of their fathers together,” says Yahweh. 1 “I will repay them for burning incense on the mountains and for mocking me on the hills. 1 I will therefore measure out their past deeds into their laps.” 1

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14Yahweh said to Moses, “Write this in a book and read it in Joshua's hearing, because I will completely blot out the memory of Amalek from under the skies.”

Psalms 50:3Our God comes and does not stay silent; 1 a fire devours before him, 1 and it is very stormy around him. 1

Psalms 56:8You number my wanderings 1 and put my tears into your bottle; 1 are they not in your book? 1

Isaiah 42:14I have kept quiet for a long time; I have been still and restrained myself; 1 now I will cry out like a woman in labor; I will gasp and pant. 1

Jeremiah 16:18I will first pay back double for their iniquity and sin for their polluting of my land with their disgusting idol figures, and for their filling my inheritance with their disgusting idols.” 1

Ezekiel 22:31So I will pour out my indignation upon them. I will finish them with the fire of my indignation and set their way on their own heads—this is the Lord Yahweh's declaration.'”

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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