Isaiah 65:7

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

The apostle Paul (an expositor we may depend upon) has given us the true sense of these verses, and told us what was the event they pointed at and were fulfilled in, namely, the calling in of the Gentiles and the rejection of the Jews, by the preaching of the gospel, Rom. 10:20, 21. And he observes that herein Esaias is very bold, not only in foretelling a thing so improbable ever to be brought about, but in foretelling it to the Jews, who would take it as a gross affront to their nation, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:7

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together (saith the Lord) ,.... That is, the punishment both of the one and of the other; these being alike, and continued from father to son, and approved of, and committed by one generation after another, till the measure was filled up; and then the recompence of reward is given for all of them together at once: which have burnt incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; where they offered incense and other sacrifices... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Isaiah 65:7

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. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

SECTION XI .— GOD 'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES ' PRAYER ( Isaiah 65:1-25 .) ISRAEL 'S SUFFERINGS THE JUST MEED OF THEIR SINS . God's mercy is such that it even overflows upon those who are outside the covenant ( Isaiah 65:1 ). It has been offered to Israel, but Israel has rejected it . Their rebellion, their idolatries, and their pride have caused, and must continue to cause, their punishment ( Isaiah 65:2-7 ). read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-7

The offensiveness and the doom of sin. The passage brings out in a very graphic form— I. THE OFFENSIVENESS OF SIN . 1 . Assumption. "Walking after their own thoughts" instead of reverently inquiring God's will ( Isaiah 65:2 ). 2 . Positive disobedience in the manner of Divine worship ( Isaiah 65:3 ). 3 . Superstitious practices , implying discontent with the disclosures God had made in his holy Word ( Isaiah 65:4 ). 4 . Irreligious self-indulgence ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-10

Threatenings and promises. Both, as it would appear, addressed to the chosen people, though many, including St. Paul, apply the earlier part of the passage to the conversion of the Gentiles. There is a polytheistic party, and a party of true believers in the nation. I. GOD BEFOREHAND WITH MEN . He "allows himself to be consulted;" he "offers answers," or "is heard" by those who came not to consult him. He was "at hand to those who did not seek him." To a nation that did not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Isaiah 65:7

Your iniquities . This is a new sentence, not a continuation of Isaiah 65:6 , which should be closed by a full stop. It is an incomplete sentence, needing for its completion the repetition of the verb shillamti , "I will recompense." Which have burned incense upon the mountains (see 2 Kings 17:11 ; Hosea 4:13 ; Ezekiel 6:13 ; and comp. Isaiah 57:7 ). And blasphemed me; rather, reproached me (see Isaiah 37:4 , Isaiah 37:17 , Isaiah 37:23 , Isaiah 37:24 ). Therefore... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Isaiah 65:7

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 Exodus 20:5; Exodus 34:7; Numbers 14:18; Job 21:19; Luke... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:7

Isaiah 65:7. Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers 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. Which have burned incense upon the mountains There performing to idols that homage which I commanded them to pay unto me; or, if any of them pretend it was to me they performed that service, though before an image, yet it was in a way and place in... 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

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