Isaiah 65:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:5-6

Isaiah 65:5-6. Who say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me Though they were so exceedingly guilty, yet they pretended to singular sanctity, so that they would not suffer others to come near or touch them. The reader will observe that the crime of hypocrisy is here decried, and every one that is acquainted with the gospels will easily see that the character of the Pharisees and their followers is drawn in this passage; see Luke 18:10. And there cannot be a more lively description of... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-16

God’s people: servants or rebels? (65:1-16)It was God’s desire that Israel seek him and enjoy his blessings, but instead the nation rebelled against him and stubbornly went its own way. Only a minority within Israel, along with those of Gentile nations who turned to Israel’s God, were really God’s people (65:1-2). As for the people of Israel as a whole, they had throughout their long history repeatedly made God angry. They sacrificed to other gods, consulted the spirits of the dead and ate... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 65:5

Isaiah 65:5. Which say, Stand by thyself, &c.— In the following section, ch. Isa 66:5 the crime of hypocrisy as here is decried, and every reader will easily recognize in both places the Pharisees and their followers. See Luke 18:10. There cannot be a more lively description of spiritual pride and hypocritical arrogance than these words afford us. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:5

5. (Matthew 9:11; Luke 5:30; Luke 18:11; Judges 1:19). Applicable to the hypocritical self-justifiers of our Lord's time. smoke—alluding to the smoke of their self-righteous sacrifices; the fire of God's wrath was kindled at the sight, and exhibited itself in the smoke that breathed forth from His nostrils; in Hebrew the nose is the seat of anger; and the nostrils distended in wrath, as it were, breathe forth smoke [ROSENMULLER] (Psalms 18:8). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-7

Superficial righteousness 65:1-7 read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-16

The divine response 65:1-16The Lord responded, through the prophet, to the viewpoint expressed in the preceding prayer (Isaiah 63:7 to Isaiah 64:12)."The great mass [of the Israelites] were in that state of ’sin unto death’ which defies all intercession (1 John Isaiah 65:16), because they had so scornfully and obstinately resisted the grace which had been so long and so incessantly offered to them." [Note: Delitzsch, 2:474.] read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:5

The Israelites’ assumption of spiritual superiority over others disgusted the Lord (cf. Matthew 23). Rather than being a pleasing aroma in His nostrils, the smoke of their offerings repulsed Him. Their ceaseless sacrifices were a needless burning instead of pleasing acts of worship.In this whole pericope, Isaiah was speaking in the Lord’s behalf about the Israelites who felt that their rituals of worship should have resulted in God’s blessing, or at least His responding to them when they... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

The Punishment of Apostate and Reward of Faithful IsraelIsaiah 65:1-10. Israel’s obduracy to Jehovah’s appeals, and persistent idolatry, which He will surely punish; yet a faithful remnant shall be preserved. 11-25. The fate in store for the unfaithful. The glories of the coming age for God’s faithful people.Isaiah 66:1-4. The danger of trusting in externals; a merely formal worship is an abomination to Jehovah. 5. A message of comfort for the faithful who axe persecuted. 6- 14a. The wonderful... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

1. Render, ’I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.’ The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected Jehovah’s appeals so often made. St. Paul (Romans 10:20) applies the passage by inference to the heathen world.3. Gardens] the scenes of idolatrous rites in the pre-exile period (Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5). Upon altars, etc.] RV ’upon bricks,’ i.e. perhaps the tiled roofs of houses (2 Kings 23:12).... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:5

(5) Which say, Stand by thyself . . .—The picture, in its main outlines, reminds us of the proud exclusiveness of the later Pharisees, and the root-evil is, of course, identical. Here, however, the ground of the exclusiveness is not the consciousness of the peculiar privileges of Israel, but rests on what was an actual apostasy. Those of whom Isaiah speaks boasted of their initiation into heathen mysteries (Baal, Thammuz, or the like) as giving them a kind of consecrated character, and... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:5-6

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-16

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Isaiah 65:5

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:5

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-7

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:1-16

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Isaiah 65:5

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-24

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:1-25

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Isaiah 65:5

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