Isaiah 65:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Will i

Did evil

Isaiah 65:3

Isaiah 1:16

Jeremiah 16:17

And did

Isaiah 66:3

Proverbs 1:29

General references

Matthew 24:21

Bible References

Will i

Your men will be put to the sword, and your men of war will come to destruction in the fight.

... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.

Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.

And so the Lord has said, You have not given ear to me and undertaken publicly, every man to let loose his countryman and his neighbour: see, I undertake to let loose against you the sword and disease and need of food; and I will send you wandering among all the kingdoms of the earth.

Or if I send a sword against that land, and say, Sword, go through the land, cutting off from it man and beast:

And my hand will be stretched out on Judah and on all the people of Jerusalem, cutting off the name of the Baal from this place, and the name of the false priests,

But the king was angry; and he sent his armies, and those who had put his servants to death he gave to destruction, burning down their town with fire.

Did evil

A people who make me angry every day, making offerings in gardens, and burning perfumes on bricks.

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.

And did

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:

General references

Because in those days there will be great sorrow, such as there has not been from the start of the world till now, or ever will be.