2 I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts. 3 The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks: 4 Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things—their vessels. 5 Who are saying, 'Keep to thyself, come not nigh to me, For I have declared thee unholy.' These 'are' a smoke in Mine anger, A fire burning all the day. 6 Lo, it is written before Me: 'I am not silent, but have recompensed; And I have recompensed into their bosom, 7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, said Jehovah, Who have made perfume on the mountains, And on the heights have reproached Me, And I have measured their former work into their bosom.'
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Isaiah 65:2-7
Commentary on Isaiah 65:1-7
(Read Isaiah 65:1-7)
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 speedy change takes place. All the gospel day, Christ waited to be gracious. The Jews were bidden, but would not come. It is not without cause they are rejected of God. They would do what most pleased them. They grieved, they vexed the Holy Spirit. They forsook God's temple, and sacrificed in groves. They cared not for the distinction between clean and unclean meats, before it was taken away by the gospel. Perhaps this is put for all forbidden pleasures, and all that is thought to be gotten by sin, that abominable thing which the Lord hates. Christ denounced many woes against the pride and hypocrisy of the Jews. The proof against them is plain. And let us watch against pride and self-preference, remembering that every sin, and the most secret thoughts of man's heart, are known and will be judged by God.