Isaiah 65:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;

A people

To my face

Job 1:11

Job 2:5

That sacrificeth

Ezekiel 20:28

Altars

Exodus 20:24

Exodus 30:1

Bible References

A people

For Jerusalem was weak, and Judah fell: for their tongues and their doings are against Jehovah to embitter the eyes of his glory.

He will cause him to be jealous with strangers, With abominations they will irritate him.

And they heard not, and they will harden their neck as the neck Of their fathers who did not believe in Jehovah their God.

Because they forsook me, and they will burn incense to other gods to irritate me in all the work of their hands; and my wrath burnt upon this place and it shall not be quenched.

How often they will embitter him in the desert! they will grieve him in the waste.

For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah were only doing evil in mine eyes from their youth: for the sons of Israel were only irritating me with the work of their hands, says Jehovah.

And he said to me, Sawest, thou son of man? Was it light to the house of Judah doing the abominations which they did here? for they filled the land with violence, and they turned back to irritate me: and behold them sending the branch to their nose.

And fill ye up yourselves the measure of your fathers.

To my face

But send forth now thy band and tough upon all which is to him, if he will not bless thee upon thy face.

But send forth now thy hand and touch upon his bone and upon his flesh, if he will not bless thee to thy face.

That sacrificeth

For they shall be ashamed of their mighty ones which ye desired, and ye shall blush for the gardens which ye chose.

They consecrating themselves and cleansing themselves in the gardens, behind one in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse; together shall they perish, says Jehovah

So that the sons of Israel shall bring their sacrifices which they sacrificed upon the face of the field, and they brought them to Jehovah at the door of the tent of appointment, to the priest, and they sacrificed them, sacrifices of peace to Jehovah.

And Jehovah will say to me in the days of Josiah the king, Sawest thou what Israel turning back, did? She went up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and she will commit fornication there.

And I shall bring them to the land which I lifted up my hand to give, it to them, and they will see every high hill and every thick tree, and they will sacrifice there their sacrifices, and they will give there the provocation of their oblation, and they will set there the odor of their sweetnesses, and they will pour out there their libations:

Altars

An altar of earth shalt thou make to me, and sacrifice upon it thy burnt-offering and thy peace, and thy sheep and thy cattle: and in every place where I shall cause my name to be remembered, I will come to thee and bless thee.

And make an altar for burning incense: of acacia wood shalt thou make it