Isaiah 66:5

Hear the word of Yahweh, ye who care anxiously for his word: Said your brethren Who hated you. Who thrust you out for my Name’s sake, Yahweh be glorified! Therefore shall he appear to your rejoicing, But, they, shall turn pale.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his word; your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name’s sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

In Context

4I, also, will choose the things that vex them. And the things they dread, will I bring upon them, Because—I called and there was none to answer, I spake, and they hearkened not,—But did that which was wicked in mine eyes, And of that wherein I delighted not, made choice.

6The sound of a tumult—out of the city, A sound, out of the temple,—The sound of Yahweh rendering recompense to his foes.

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Cross References

2 Kings 22:10Then Shaphan the scribe told the king, saying—A book, hath Hilkiah the priest delivered unto me. And Shaphan read it before the king.

Ezra 9:4Then, unto me, were gathered, all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, concerning the unfaithfulness of them who had been exiled,—but, I, sat stunned, until the evening gift.

Psalms 119:120My flesh, bristled up from dread of thee, and, of thy regulations, stand I in fear.

Song of Solomon 1:6[SHE] Do not look on me, because, I, am so swarthy, because the sun hath scorched me,—My mother’s sons, were angry with me, they set me to keep the vineyards, Mine own vineyard, have I not kept. …

Isaiah 26:11O Yahweh though thy hand be lifted up,—yet do they not see, Would they might see—and turn pale at a people’s zeal,—Surely, the fire of thine enemies, must consume them!

Isaiah 66:2For, all these things, hath mine own hand made, And all these things came into being,—Declareth Yahweh. But for this one, will I look around, For him who is humbled and smitten in spirit, And so careth anxiously for my word.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 66:2-5

The Vanity of Mere Ritual Obedience. ( b. c. 706.) 1 Thus saith the Lord , The heaven is my throne, and the earth is my footstool: where is the house that ye build unto me? and where is the place of my rest? 2 For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord : but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word. 3 He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he… Read the whole commentary →

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