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Isaiah 65:2

1 Thessalonians 2:15; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Acts 7:51; Acts 7:52; Deuteronomy 29:19; Deuteronomy 31:27; Deuteronomy 9:7; Ezekiel 2:3; Genesis 6:5; Isaiah 1:2; Isaiah 55:7; Isaiah 59:7; Isaiah 59:8; Isaiah 63:10; James 1:14; James 1:15; Jeremiah 3:17; Jeremiah 4:14; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 7:24; Luke 13:34; Luke 19:41; Luke 19:42; Matthew 12:33; Matthew 12:34; Matthew 15:19; Matthew 23:37; Numbers 15:39; Proverbs 1:24; Proverbs 16:29; Psalms 36:4; Psalms 81:12; Romans 10:21; Romans 2:5

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See also Isaiah 65:2 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS - To spread out the hands is an action denoting invitation or entreaty Proverbs 1:24. The sense is, that God had invited the Jews constantly to partake of his favors, but th...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 65 Jehovah's Answer: The Rebellious and Their Judgment, the Faithful and Their Blessings 1. _The divine rebuke to the apostates (Isaiah 65:1) _ 2. _The elect seed (Isaiah 65:9) _ 3. The judg...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    RETRIBUTION AWAITS THOSE WHO CLING TO THE OLD RITUAL PRACTICES AND REFUSE TO ADHERE TO THE REFORMED RELIGION. Yahweh declares His readiness to respond to this people, but they would not approach Him o...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOOD. right. Compare Psalms 36:4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _spread out mine hands_ The attitude of supplication; cf. Proverbs 1:24. _a rebellious_( REFRACTORY, Hosea 4:16) _people_ LXX. has; λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα; and so the citation Romans 10:21....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah's overtures have been rejected by an obdurate people. 1 Render: I WAS TO BE ENQUIRED OF BY THOSE THAT ASKED NOT, I WAS TO BE FOUND BY THEM THAT SOUGHT ME NOT, etc. The first verb in each li...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    E. REFINING OF ZION, CHAPTER 65 1. CLEANSED TEXT: Isaiah 65:1-12 1 I am inquired of by them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts; SPREAD OUT MY HANDS - inviting them earnestly (). ALL THE DAY...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1. Render, 'I have offered answers to those who asked not; I have been at hand to those who sought me not.. a nation that hath not called upon my name.' The v. refers to the Israelites who neglected J...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    These verses describe the same situation in the *Old Testament. There are many *Israelites who would consider themselves to be the ‘people of God’. But their daily behaviour does not agree with their...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD’S PROMISES TO HIS SPECIAL PEOPLE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 58 TO 66 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 65 CHAPTER S 65-66 refer to subjects in CHAPTER S 1-4. • In chapter 2:1-...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS... — Here, of course, the words were meant for Israel, as St. Paul applies them. It may not be without interest to note the fact that the words stand over the portal of the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    פֵּרַ֧שְׂתִּי יָדַ֛י כָּל ־הַ יֹּ֖ום אֶל ־עַ֣

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXV A LAST INTERCESSION AND THE JUDGMENT Isaiah 63:7 through Isaiah 66:1 WE might well have thought, that with the section we have been considering the prophecy of Israel's Redemption had re...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    A SEED RESCUED FROM DESTRUCTION Isaiah 65:1-12 The prophet now enumerates the reasons that forced the Lord to turn aside from the Chosen People, and call in the Gentiles to occupy the place and perfo...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    In this chapter we have a graphic description of the working of the principle of discrimination, the sifting of the people by God. There is first a contrast between the false and the true. The rebelli...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    I have (b) spread out my hands all the day to a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that is] not good, after their own (c) thoughts; (b) He shows the reason for the rejection of the Jews, beca...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This is the lamentation of Jesus over his ancient people, the Jews. And what a sad history of rebellion, from the beginning, when God formed them into a Church, to the time of their rejecting the Lord...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    2._I have stretched out my hands. _He accuses the Jews, and complains of their ingratitude and rebellion; and in this manner he proves that there is no reason why they should say that the Lord does th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 64 AND 65. The next two Chapter s give us a full revelation of the dealings of God in answer to this appeal. First of all, God, through His grace, had been so...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    I HAVE SPREAD OUT MINE HANDS ALL THE DAY UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE,.... Meaning Israel, as the apostle explains it, Romans 10:21, whom he calls a "disobedient and gainsaying people"; who believed not i...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way [that was] not good, after their own thoughts; Ver. 2. _I have spread out my hands._] As preachers use to do, P...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I have spread out my hands_ This is applied to the Jews, Romans 10:21. _I have stretched out my hands_, I have used all means to reduce them; I have stretched out the _hands_ of a passionate _orator_...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I have spread out My hands all the day, during the entire period when His covenant relation with Israel was in force, UNTO A REBELLIOUS PEOPLE, stiff-necked and stubborn in all its actions, WHICH WALK...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE LORD'S REFUSAL...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-7 The Gentiles came to seek God, and find him, because they were first sought and found of him. Often he meets some thoughtless trifler or profligate opposer, and says to him, Behold me; and a spee...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    OLBGrk; I HAVE SPREAD OUT MY HANDS; applied to the Jews, ROMANS 10:21, _I have stretched out my hands_; that is, I have used all probable means to reduce them, I have stretched out the _hands_ of a pa...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 65:2 out H6566 (H8765) hands H3027 day H3117 rebellious H5637 (H8802) people H5971 walk H1980 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE MAJORITY OF HIS PEOPLE WILL REJECT HIM FOR THEIR IDOLS AND WILL RECEIVE THEIR JUST PUNISHMENT (ISAIAH 65:2). On the other hand those who do claim to be called by His name, but are hypocritical, w...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Answer of Jehovah to remnant of Israel. Eternal blessing in the renovated earth. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: Although Jehovah has long stretched forth His hand to a disobedient and gainsa...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 65:4. _Which remain among the graves._ The LXX add, _dream._ Perhaps Jude had this text in his eye, when he calls the wicked “filthy dreamers.” _See Augustine's city of God. Which eat swine's f...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 65:1 Though the people of God have unfaithful sinners mixed among them now, he is eager to bring them into their glorious eternal home. His eagerness is rejected by Jews but welc...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now God answers the prayer offered by the remnant of the people and He said, I am sought of them that asked not for me (Isaiah 65:1); Here's the remnant of the Jewish people calling to God. "If You'...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I have spread — Applied to the Jews, Romans 10:21. I have stretched out my hands, I have used all means to reduce them, I have stretched out the hands of a passionate orator to persuade them, of a lib...

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