Isaiah 65:7

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Summary

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.

Your iniquities

Blasphemed

Ezekiel 20:27

Therefore

Bible References

Your iniquities

You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I, the Lord, your God, am a jealous God, responding to the transgression of fathers by dealing with children to the third and fourth generations of those who reject me,

"'As for the ones who remain among you, they will rot away because of their iniquity in the lands of your enemies, and they will also rot away because of their ancestors' iniquities which are with them.

Now look, you are standing in your fathers' place, a brood of sinners, to increase still further the fierce wrath of the Lord against the Israelites.

We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil.

O LORD, we have been humiliated -- our kings, our leaders, and our ancestors -- because we have sinned against you.

By saying this you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Blasphemed

"Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and tell them, 'This is what the sovereign Lord says: In this way too your fathers blasphemed me when they were unfaithful to me.

Therefore

Look, I have decreed: I will not keep silent, but will pay them back; I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,

I will surely punish them for doing such things!" says the Lord. "I will surely bring retribution on such a nation as this!"

But I am not really the one being troubled!" says the Lord. "Rather they are bringing trouble on themselves to their own shame!

This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.

Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!

because they hinder us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they constantly fill up their measure of sins, but wrath has come upon them completely.