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Who say, ‘Keep to yourself, do not come near me,
For I [a]am too holy for you [and you might defile me]!’
These [people] are smoke in My nostrils,
A fire that burns all the day.

“Indeed, it is written before Me,
I will not keep silent, but I will repay;
I will even repay it [directly] into their [b]arms,

Both your own wickedness and the wickedness of your fathers,” says the Lord.
“Since they too have made offerings with incense on the mountains
And scorned and taunted Me on the hills,
I therefore will measure [punishment for] their former work [directly] into their [c]arms.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:5 Or would transfer holiness to you (and thereby make the recipient subject to inconvenient restrictions).
  2. Isaiah 65:6 Or bosom, i.e. the fold in the outer robe where personal items are sometimes kept.
  3. Isaiah 65:7 Or bosom.

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