Isaiah 65:6

Lo! it is written before me,—I will not keep silence, But I have recompensed, and will recompense into their bosom:

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Who say—Draw near by thyself, Do not approach with me, For I am holier than thou! These, are A smoke in my nostrils, A fire, burning all the day.

7Your own iniquities, And the, iniquities of your fathers together, Saith Yahweh, Who have burned incense upon the mountains, And upon the hills, have reproached me,—Therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom.

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Cross References

Exodus 17:14Then said Yahweh unto Moses—Write this as a remembrancer in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua—that I will, wipe out, the remembrance of Amalek, from under the heavens.

Psalms 50:3Let our God come, and let him not keep silence! A fire—before him, shall devour, And, around him, hath it become exceeding tempestuous:

Psalms 56:8My wandering, hast, thou, recorded,—Put thou my tears in thy bottle, Are they not in thy record?

Isaiah 42:14I have held my peace from age-past times, I kept still, I restrained myself,—As a travailing woman, I pant, I breathe hard and gasp, all at once!

Jeremiah 16:18Thus will I recompense, first, twofold, their iniquity and their sin, because of their profaning my land,—with the carcase of their disgusting and detestable things, have they filled mine inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:31Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,— Their way, upon their own head, have I placed Declareth, My Lord Yahweh.

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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