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Isaiah 65:3

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

These people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,

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Indeed, they  will be ashamed of the sacred trees you desired, and you will be embarrassed because of the garden shrines you have chosen.


‘Those who dedicate and purify themselves to enter the groves  following their leader,  eating meat from pigs, vermin,  and rats, will perish together.’ This is the  Lord’s declaration.


But stretch out your hand and strike  everything he owns, and he will surely curse you to your face.’


They have provoked my jealousy with what is not a god; they have enraged me with their worthless idols. So I will provoke their jealousy with what is not a people; I will enrage them with a foolish nation.


For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they have spoken and acted against the  Lord, defying his glorious presence.


But stretch out your hand and strike  his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse you to your face.’


This is so the Israelites will bring to the Lord the sacrifices  they have been offering in the open country. They are to bring them to the priest at the entrance to the tent of meeting and offer them as fellowship sacrifices  to the Lord.


When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree,  they offered their sacrifices and presented their offensive offerings there. They also sent up their pleasing aromas and poured out their drink offerings there.


In the days of King Josiah the Lord asked me, ‘Have you seen what unfaithful Israel has done? She has ascended every high hill and gone under every green tree to prostitute herself there.


because they have abandoned me and burned incense to other gods in order to anger me with all the work of their hands. My wrath will be kindled against this place, and it will not be quenched.”


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.





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