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

Do not worship them or serve them. I, Jehovah your God, am a God demanding exclusive devotion. (I do not tolerate rivals.) I will not share your affection with any other god. I punish children for their parents' sins to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

Those who are left will waste away in the lands of their enemies because of their sins and the sins of their ancestors.

You are just like your parents! You are a bunch of sinners trying to make Jehovah angry at Israel again.

We have sinned like our fathers! We have committed iniquity and have behaved wickedly.

O Jehovah, to us belongs shame, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against you.

You witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Blasphemed

Now then, son of man, tell the Israelites what I, the Lord Jehovah, am saying to them. This is another way their ancestors insulted me by their unfaithfulness.

Therefore

See, it stands written before me. I will not keep silent but will pay back in full; I will pay it back into their laps

Why should I not punish the people of Judah? Says Jehovah, Should I take retribution (vengeance)?

Do they spite me? Asks Jehovah. Is it not themselves they spite, to their own shame?

This is your fate, the destiny I have planned for you, proclaims Jehovah. You have forgotten me and trusted in false gods.

Fill up the (guilt) measure of your fathers.

They hindered us from speaking to the nations so that they may be saved. The result was that they always fill up the measure of their sins. But wrath has come upon them to the utmost.