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Selected Verse: Isaiah 65:7 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Isa 65:7 |
Strong Concordance |
Your iniquities [05771], and the iniquities [05771] of your fathers [01] together [03162], saith [0559] the LORD [03068], which have burned incense [06999] upon the mountains [02022], and blasphemed [02778] me upon the hills [01389]: therefore will I measure [04058] their former [07223] work [06468] into their bosom [02436]. |
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King James |
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. |
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| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
Their sin had been accumulating from age to age until God at last repaid it in full.
mountains-- (Isa 57:7; Eze 18:6; Eze 20:27-28; Hos 4:13).
their--"Your" had preceded. From speaking to, He speaks of them; this implies growing alienation from them and greater distance.
work--the full recompense of their work (so Isa 49:4). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Your iniquities - Their idolatry and their forsaking God, and their arts of necromancy.
And the iniquities of your fathers together - The consequences of your own sins, and of the long defection of the nation from virtue and pure religion, shall come rushing upon you like accumulated floods. This is in accordance with the Scripture doctrine everywhere, that the consequences of the sins of ancestors pass over and visit their posterity (see Exo 20:5; Exo 34:7; Num 14:18; Job 21:19; Luk 11:50-51; the notes at Rom 5:19). The case here was, that the nation had been characteristically prone to wander from God, and to fall into idolatry. Crime had thus been accumulating, like pent-up waters, for ages, and now it swept away every barrier. So crime often accumulates in a nation. Age after age rolls on, and it is unpunished, until it breaks over every obstacle, and all that is valuable and happy is swept suddenly away.
Which have burnt incense upon the mountains - (See the notes at Isa 65:3).
And blasphemed me upon the hills - That is, they have dishonored me by worshipping idols, and by denying me in that public manner. Idols were usually worshipped on high places.
Will I measure their former work - I will recompense them; I will pour the reward of their work or of their doings into their bosom. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| Together - Yea, and when I reckon with them, I will punish them, not only for their personal sins, but for the sins of their parents, which they have made their own, by imitation. Their former - I will not only punish the late sins that they have committed, but the former sins of this kind, which those that went before did commit, and they have continued in. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
| Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers "Their iniquities, and the iniquities of their fathers" - For the pronoun affixed of the second person חם chem, your, twice, read הם hem, their, in the third person; with the Septuagint and Houbigant. - L. |
4 Then I said [0559], I have laboured [03021] in vain [07385], I have spent [03615] my strength [03581] for nought [08414], and in vain [01892]: yet surely [0403] my judgment [04941] is with the LORD [03068], and my work [06468] with my God [0430].
13 They sacrifice [02076] upon the tops [07218] of the mountains [02022], and burn incense [06999] upon the hills [01389], under oaks [0437] and poplars [03839] and elms [0424], because the shadow [06738] thereof is good [02896]: therefore your daughters [01323] shall commit whoredom [02181], and your spouses [03618] shall commit adultery [05003].
27 Therefore, son [01121] of man [0120], speak [01696] unto the house [01004] of Israel [03478], and say [0559] unto them, Thus saith [0559] the Lord [0136] GOD [03069]; Yet in this your fathers [01] have blasphemed [01442] me, in that they have committed [04603] a trespass [04604] against me.
28 For when I had brought [0935] them into the land [0776], for the which I lifted up [05375] mine hand [03027] to give [05414] it to them, then they saw [07200] every high [07311] hill [01389], and all the thick [05687] trees [06086], and they offered [02076] there their sacrifices [02077], and there they presented [05414] the provocation [03708] of their offering [07133]: there also they made [07760] their sweet [05207] savour [07381], and poured out [05258] there their drink offerings [05262].
6 And hath not eaten [0398] upon the mountains [02022], neither hath lifted up [05375] his eyes [05869] to the idols [01544] of the house [01004] of Israel [03478], neither hath defiled [02930] his neighbour's [07453] wife [0802], neither hath come near [07126] to a menstruous [05079] woman [0802],
7 Upon a lofty [01364] and high [05375] mountain [02022] hast thou set [07760] thy bed [04904]: even thither wentest thou up [05927] to offer [02076] sacrifice [02077].
3 A people [05971] that provoketh me to anger [03707] continually [08548] to my face [06440]; that sacrificeth [02076] in gardens [01593], and burneth incense [06999] upon altars of brick [03843];
19 For [1063] as [5618] by [1223] one [1520] man's [444] disobedience [3876] many [4183] were made [2525] sinners [268], so [3779] [2532] by [1223] the obedience [5218] of one [1520] shall [2525] many [4183] be made [2525] righteous [1342].
50 That [2443] the blood [129] of all [3956] the prophets [4396], which [3588] was shed [1632] from [575] the foundation [2602] of the world [2889], may be required [1567] of [575] this [5026] generation [1074];
51 From [575] the blood [129] of Abel [6] unto [2193] the blood [129] of Zacharias [2197], which [3588] perished [622] between [3342] the altar [2379] and [2532] the temple [3624]: verily [3483] I say [3004] unto you [5213], It shall be required [1567] of [575] this [5026] generation [1074].
19 God [0433] layeth up [06845] his iniquity [0205] for his children [01121]: he rewardeth [07999] him, and he shall know [03045] it.
18 The LORD [03068] is longsuffering [0750] [0639], and of great [07227] mercy [02617], forgiving [05375] iniquity [05771] and transgression [06588], and by no means [05352] clearing [05352] the guilty, visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121] unto the third [08029] and fourth [07256] generation.
7 Keeping [05341] mercy [02617] for thousands [0505], forgiving [05375] iniquity [05771] and transgression [06588] and sin [02403], and that will by no means [05352] clear [05352] the guilty; visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121], and upon the children's [01121] children, unto the third [08029] and to the fourth [07256] generation.
5 Thou shalt not bow down [07812] thyself to them, nor serve [05647] them: for I the LORD [03068] thy God [0430] am a jealous [07067] God [0410], visiting [06485] the iniquity [05771] of the fathers [01] upon the children [01121] unto the third [08029] and fourth [07256] generation of them that hate [08130] me;