Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Isaiah 65:3
To my face — With the utmost impudence, not taking notice of God's omnipresence, and omniscience. In gardens, &c. — Directly contrary to the divine rule.
To my face — With the utmost impudence, not taking notice of God's omnipresence, and omniscience. In gardens, &c. — Directly contrary to the divine rule.
Verse Isaiah 65:3. _THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, AND BURNETH INCENSE UPON_ _ALTARS OF BRICK_ - "Sacrificing in the gardens, and burning incense on the tiles"] These are instances of heathenish supers...
A PEOPLE - This verse contains a specification of the reasons why God had rejected them, and brought the calamities upon them. THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER - That is, by their sins. They give constant...
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...
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...
PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER. Reference to Pentateuch (Deuteronomy 32:21, the same word, though not the same form). App-92. THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS. Reference to Pentateuch (Leviticus 17:5). UPON ALTAR...
Description of their illegal and superstitious cults....
_that sacrificeth in the gardens_ Cf. ch. Isaiah 66:17, and see on Isaiah 1:29. _burneth incense upon altars of brick_ Strictly ON THE BRICKS (R.V.), or TILES. We have no key to the meaning of the exp...
THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, &C.— The superstition of the Jews is here reproved: the passage is not to be understood literally, but mystically (see ch. Isaiah 66:17.); the prophet herein figuratively...
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...
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER CONTINUALLY - answering to "al...
GARDENS] the scenes of idolatrous rites in the pre-exile period (Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5). UPON ALTARS, etc.] RV 'upon bricks,' i.e. perhaps the tiled roofs of houses (2 Kings 23:12)....
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...
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...
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-...
The people are not content merely to leave God out of their lives. They are boldly insulting God on purpose. They say that they do not need God. They are self-sufficient (in other words, they depend o...
THAT SACRIFLCETH IN GARDENS. — It is not without significance, as bearing on the date of the chapter, that the practice was common in Judah under Ahaz. (Comp. Isaiah 1:29; Micah 5; Ezekiel 20:28.) BUR...
הָ עָ֗ם הַ מַּכְעִיסִ֥ים אֹותִ֛י עַל ־פָּנַ֖י
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...
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...
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...
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in (d) gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of (e) brick; (d) Which were dedicated to idols. (e) Meaning their altars...
_Gardens, to the impure Venus and Adonis. --- Bricks, to the Manes. (Calmet) --- Tegula porrectis satis est velata coronis_ Et sparsæ fruges parvaque mica salis. (Ovid, Fast. x.)...
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...
3._A people that provoketh me. _Here he describes and illustrates more largely in what respects the Jews were rebellious against God. It was because they had forsaken the command of God, and had pollu...
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...
A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER CONTINUALLY TO MY FACE,.... They committed their sins openly, without any fear of the divine Being, and in defiance of him, not at all awed by his omniscience and o...
A people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; Ver. 3. _A people that provoketh me to my face._] As it were for the...
_A people that provoketh me to anger_ That the Jews are the people here intended, is without question: the prophet, speaking of the calling of the Gentiles, upon their rejection, enumerates some of th...
a people that provoketh Me to anger continually to My face, with a bold impertinence that challenged the wrath of the Lord; THAT SACRIFICETH IN GARDENS, in groves, after the manner of the heathen, AND...
THE LORD'S REFUSAL...
UPON ALTARS OF BRICK...
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...
A PEOPLE THAT PROVOKETH ME TO ANGER: that the Jews are the people here intended is without question; the prophet, speaking of the calling of the Gentiles upon their rejection, reckons up their sins wh...
Isaiah 65:3 people H5971 anger H3707 (H8688) continually H8548 face H6440 sacrifice H2076 (H8802) gardens H1593 incens
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...
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...
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...
_A people that provoked Me to anger_ OBSTINACY PROVOKES GOD’S WRATH By rejecting His love with stiff-necked obstinacy, they have incurred wrath, which, though long and patiently restrained, now burs...
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...
SECTION XI.—GOD'S ANSWER TO THE EXILES' PRAYER (Isaiah 65:1.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 65:1 ISRAEL'S SUFFERINGS
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'...
2 Kings 17:14; 2 Kings 22:17; Deuteronomy 32:16; Deuteronomy 32:21;...