Isaiah 65:7

for 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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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

6Look, 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

8This is what Yahweh says, “As when juice is found in a cluster of grapes, 1 when one says, 'Do not ruin it, for there is good in it,' 1 this is what I will do for my servants' sake: I will not ruin them all. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 20:5You must not bow down to them or worship them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God. I punish the ancestors' wickedness by bringing punishment on the descendants, to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me.

Numbers 32:14Look, you have risen up in your fathers' place, like just more sinful men, to add to Yahweh's burning anger toward Israel.

1 Kings 22:44Jehoshaphat made peace with the king of Israel.

2 Kings 14:4But the high places were not taken away. The people still sacrificed and burned incense at the high places.

2 Kings 16:4He offered sacrifices and burned incense at the high places, on the hilltops, and under every green tree.

Psalms 106:6We have sinned like our ancestors; 1 we have done wrong, and we have done evil. 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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