Isaiah 65:1-5

Judgment and Salvation

1 “I revealed myself to those who did not ask for me; I was found by those who did not seek me. To a nation that did not call on my name, I said, ‘Here am I, here am I.’
2 All day long I have held out my hands to an obstinate people, who walk in ways not good, pursuing their own imaginations—
3 a people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
4 who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
5 who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me, for I am too sacred for you!’ Such people are smoke in my nostrils, a fire that keeps burning all day.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Hosea 1:10; Romans 9:24-26; Romans 10:20*
  • 2. Romans 9:30; Ephesians 2:12
  • 3. S Psalms 14:4; S Isaiah 43:7
  • 4. S Psalms 78:8; S Isaiah 1:2,23; Romans 10:21*
  • 5. Psalms 81:11-12; S Proverbs 24:2; Isaiah 66:18
  • 6. S Job 1:11
  • 7. S Isaiah 1:29
  • 8. S Leviticus 2:2; Jeremiah 41:5; Jeremiah 44:17; Ezekiel 23:41
  • 9. S Leviticus 19:31; S Isaiah 8:19
  • 10. S Leviticus 11:7
  • 11. S Psalms 40:4; Matthew 9:11; Luke 7:39; Luke 18:9-12
  • 12. Proverbs 10:26
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