I have [a]spread out mine hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walked in a way that was not good, even after their own [b]imaginations.

A people that provoked me ever unto my face: that sacrificeth in [c]gardens, and burneth incense upon [d]bricks.

Which remain among the [e]graves, and lodge in the deserts, which eat [f]swine’s flesh, and the broth of things polluted are in their vessels.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:2 He showeth the cause of the rejection of the Jews, because they would not obey him for any admonition of his Prophets, by whom he called them continually and stretched out his hand to draw them.
  2. Isaiah 65:2 He showeth that to delight in our own fantasies, is the declining from God and the beginning of all superstition and Idolatry.
  3. Isaiah 65:3 Which were dedicated to idols.
  4. Isaiah 65:3 Meaning, their altars, which he thus named by contempt.
  5. Isaiah 65:4 To consult with spirits, and to conjure devils, which was forbidden, Deut.18:11.
  6. Isaiah 65:4 Which was contrary to God’s Commandment, Lev. 11:7; Deut. 14:8.

All day long I have held out my hands
    to an obstinate people,(A)
who walk in ways not good,
    pursuing their own imaginations(B)
a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(C)
offering sacrifices in gardens(D)
    and burning incense(E) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(F)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(G)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

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