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Isaiah 65:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

I spread out my hands all day long to a rebellious people who walk in the path that is not good, following their own thoughts.

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But to Israel he says, All day long I have held out my hands to a disobedient and defiant people.   ,


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


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


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.


Because of your hardened and unrepentant heart you are storing up wrath  for yourself in the day of wrath,  when God’s righteous judgement is revealed.


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


Yet they didn’t listen or pay attention,  but followed their own advice and their own stubborn, evil heart. They went backwards and not forwards.


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


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


‘Knowing  their works and their thoughts, I have come to gather all nations and languages;  they will come and see my glory.


But they rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit. So he became their enemy and fought against them.


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.


When the Lord saw that human wickedness was widespread on the earth and that every inclination of the human mind was nothing but evil all the time,


‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem,   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,   but you were not willing!


‘Jerusalem, Jerusalem,   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, but you were not willing!


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


Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love graft and chase after bribes. They do not defend the rights of the fatherless, and the widow’s case never comes before them.


A violent person lures his neighbour, leading him on a path that is not good.


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!


‘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.


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 prostitute yourselves by following your own heart  and your own eyes.


Woe to the rebellious children! This is the  Lord’s declaration. They carry out a plan,  but not mine; they make an alliance, but against my will, piling sin on top of sin.


They are a rebellious people, deceptive children, children who do not want to listen to the  Lord’s instruction.


‘For my thoughts are not your thoughts, and your ways are not my ways.’ This is the  Lord’s declaration.


One person slaughters an ox, another kills a person; one person sacrifices a lamb, another breaks a dog’s neck; one person offers a grain offering, another offers pig’s blood; one person offers incense, another praises an idol – all these have chosen their ways and delight in their abhorrent practices.


So I will choose their punishment, and I will bring on them what they dread because I called and no one answered; I spoke and they did not listen; they did what was evil in my sight and chose what I did not delight in.


But they will say, “It’s hopeless.  We will continue to follow our plans, and each of us will continue to act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.” ’





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