Isaiah 65:7

Isaiah 65:7 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)both your sins and the sins of your ancestors,” says the Lord. “Because they burned sacrifices on the mountains and defied me on the hills, I will measure into their laps the full payment for their former deeds.”
• New King James Version (NKJV)Your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together,” Says the Lord, “Who have burned incense on the mountains And blasphemed Me on the hills; Therefore I will measure their former work into their bosom.”
• New Living Translation (NLT)both for their own sins and for those of their ancestors,” says the Lord. “For they also burned incense on the mountains and insulted me on the hills. I will pay them back in full!

Context of Isaiah 65:7

5who say, "Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you." These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day. 6Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap both your iniquities and your fathers' iniquities together, says the Lord; because they made offerings on the mountains and insulted me on the hills, I will measure into their lap payment for their former deeds." 8Thus says the Lord: "As the new wine is found in the cluster, and they say, 'Do not destroy it, for there is a blessing in it,' so I will do for my servants' sake, and not destroy them all. 9I will bring forth offspring from Jacob, and from Judah possessors of my mountains; my chosen shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.

Isaiah 65:7 word by word

עֲ֠וֹנֹתֵיכֶם וַעֲוֹנֹ֨ת אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֤ם יַחְדָּו֙ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָ֔ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר קִטְּרוּ֙ עַל־הֶ֣הָרִ֔ים וְעַל־הַגְּבָע֖וֹת חֵרְפ֑וּנִי וּמַדֹּתִ֧י פְעֻלָּתָ֛ם רִֽאשֹׁנָ֖ה אֶל חֵיקָֽם׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Your iniquitiesעָוֺן‛âvôn ‛âvôn · iniquity: crimeH5771
• of your fathersאָב'âb · fatherH1
• togetherיָחְדָּוyachad · togetherH3162
• saithאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
• which have burned incenseקָטַרqâţar · to offer: offerH6999
• upon the mountainsהַרhar · mountain: mountH2022
• and blasphemedחָרַףchâraph · to tauntH2778
• me upon the hillsגִּבְעָהgib‛âh · hillH1389
• therefore will I measureמָדַדmâdad · to measureH4058
• their formerרִאשׁוֹןri'shôn ri'shôn · first: previousH7223
• workפְּעֻלָּהpe‛ûllâh · wagesH6468
• into their bosomחֵיקchêyq chêq chôq · bosom: lapH2436

Cross-references for Isaiah 65:7

• Exodus 20:5You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me,
• Leviticus 26:39And those of you who are left shall rot away in your enemies' lands because of their iniquity, and also because of the iniquities of their fathers they shall rot away like them.
• Numbers 32:14And behold, you have risen in your fathers' place, a brood of sinful men, to increase still more the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel!
• Psalms 106:6Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.
• Daniel 9:8To us, O Lord, belongs open shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.
• Matthew 23:31Thus you witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
• Isaiah 57:7On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed, and there you went up to offer sacrifice.
• 1 Kings 22:43He walked in all the way of Asa his father. He did not turn aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of the Lord. Yet the high places were not taken away, and the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
• 2 Kings 12:3Nevertheless, the high places were not taken away; the people continued to sacrifice and make offerings on the high places.
• 2 Kings 14:4But the high places were not removed; the people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places.
• 2 Kings 15:35Nevertheless, the high places were not removed. The people still sacrificed and made offerings on the high places. He built the upper gate of the house of the Lord.
• 2 Kings 16:4And he sacrificed and made offerings on the high places and on the hills and under every green tree.
• Ezekiel 18:6if he does not eat upon the mountains or lift up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, does not defile his neighbor's wife or approach a woman in her time of menstrual impurity,
• Ezekiel 20:27"Therefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel and say to them, Thus says the Lord God: In this also your fathers blasphemed me, by dealing treacherously with me.
• Isaiah 65:6Behold, it is written before me: "I will not keep silent, but I will repay; I will indeed repay into their lap
• Jeremiah 5:9Shall I not punish them for these things? declares the Lord; and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?

Commentaries on Isaiah 65:7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7Your 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 the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7Your 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…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7The people of Israel practiced their pagan religion at sacred shrines on mountains and hills (see 1 Kings 14:23; Hosea 4:13).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. Their sin had been accumulating from age to age until God at last repaid it in full. mountains--(Is 57:7; Eze 18:6; 20:27, 28; Ho 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 Is 49:4).Read the comment

Topics related to Isaiah 65:7

• Blasphemy
• Children
• Church
• Condescension of God
• Heredity
• Sin

In the dictionaries

• Cry
• Sought
• Thence
• Blasphemy
• Bosom
• Former
• Isaiah
• Oreb; Zeeb

Commentaries on Isaiah 65

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings