Isaiah 65:2

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Spread

Romans 10:21

A rebellious

Which

Isaiah 59:7

Psalm 36:4

Proverbs 16:29

After

Bible References

Spread

Since I called out and you refused,
extended my hand and no one paid attention,

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem! She who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her. How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, yet you were not willing!

As He approached and saw the city, He wept over it,

But to Israel he says: All day long I have spread out My hands to a disobedient and defiant people.

A rebellious

Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth,
for the Lord has spoken:
“I have raised children and brought them up,
but they have rebelled against Me.

But they rebelled
and grieved His Holy Spirit.
So He became their enemy
and fought against them.

“Remember and do not forget how you provoked the Lord your God in the wilderness. You have been rebelling against the Lord from the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place.

For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are rebelling against the Lord now, while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after I am dead!

But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts.
They have turned aside and have gone away.

He said to me: “Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebellious pagans who have rebelled against Me. The Israelites and their ancestors have transgressed against Me to this day.

“You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are always resisting the Holy Spirit; as your ancestors did, so do you.

who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets and persecuted us; they displease God and are hostile to everyone,

Which

Their feet run after evil,
and they rush to shed innocent blood.
Their thoughts are sinful thoughts;
ruin and wretchedness are in their paths.

Even on his bed he makes malicious plans.
He sets himself on a path that is not good
and does not reject evil.

A violent man lures his neighbor,
leading him in a way that is not good.

After

Let the wicked one abandon his way
and the sinful one his thoughts;
let him return to the Lord,
so He may have compassion on him,
and to our God, for He will freely forgive.

When the Lord saw that man’s wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every scheme his mind thought of was nothing but evil all the time,

These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the Lord’s commands and obey them and not become unfaithful by following your own heart and your own eyes.

When someone hears the words of this oath, he may consider himself exempt, thinking, ‘I will have peace even though I follow my own stubborn heart.’ This will lead to the destruction of the well-watered land as well as the dry land.

So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts
to follow their own plans.

At that time Jerusalem will be called, Yahweh’s Throne, and all the nations will be gathered to it, to the name of Yahweh in Jerusalem. They will cease to follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.

Wash the evil from your heart, Jerusalem,
so that you will be delivered.
How long will you harbor
malicious thoughts within you?

Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention but followed their own advice and according to their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backward and not forward.

“Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree bad and its fruit bad; for a tree is known by its fruit.

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

But because of your hardness and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment is revealed.

But each person is tempted when he is drawn away and enticed by his own evil desires.