Which say, [a]Stand apart, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou; these are a smoke in my wrath, and a fire that [b]burneth all the day.

Behold, it is [c]written before me; I will not keep silence, but will render it and recompense it into their bosom.

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers, shall be [d]together (saith the Lord) which have burnt incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I measure their old work into their bosom.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:5 He showeth that hypocrisy is ever joined with pride and contempt of others.
  2. Isaiah 65:5 Their punishment shall never have end.
  3. Isaiah 65:6 So that the remembrance thereof cannot be forgotten.
  4. Isaiah 65:7 Shall be both punished together: and this declareth how the children are punished for their fathers’ faults, to wit, when the same faults or like are found in them.

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