Isaiah 65:2

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;

Revised Version 1895

In The King James Version

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;

In Context

1I AM inquired of by 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.

3a people that provoketh me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;

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Cross References

Numbers 15:39and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the LORD, and do them; and that ye go not about after your own heart and your own eyes, after which ye use to go a whoring:

Deuteronomy 29:19and it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine heart, to destroy the moist with the dry:

Psalms 36:4He deviseth iniquity upon his bed; he setteth himself in a way that is not good; he abhorreth not evil.

Psalms 81:11But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel would none of me.

Proverbs 16:29A man of violence enticeth his neighbour, and leadeth him in a way that is not good.

Isaiah 1:23Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

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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