Isaiah 65:3
The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:
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Exodus 30:1'And thou hast made an altar [for] making perfume; [of] shittim wood thou dost make it;
Deuteronomy 32:16They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.
2 Kings 17:14and they have not hearkened, and harden their neck, like the neck of their fathers, who did not remain stedfast in Jehovah their God,
Job 1:11The work of his hands Thou hast blessed, and his substance hath spread in the land, and yet, put forth, I pray Thee, Thy hand, and strike against anything that he hath — if not: to Thy face he doth bless Thee!'
Psalms 78:40How often do they provoke Him in the wilderness, Grieve Him in the desolate place?
Isaiah 1:29For [men] are ashamed because of the oaks That ye have desired, And ye are confounded because of the gardens That ye have chosen.
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 →