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who say, ‘Keep to yourself!’
    ‘Don’t touch[a] me!’ and ‘I am[b] too holy for you!’

“Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that keeps burning all day long.
Watch out! It stands written before me:
    ‘I won’t keep silent, but I will pay back in full;
        I’ll indeed repay into[c] their laps
both your iniquities and your ancestors’[d] iniquities together,’’
    says the Lord.
“Because they offered incense on the mountains
    and insulted me on hills,[e]
I’ll measure into[f] their laps
    full payment for their earlier actions.”

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read come near to
  2. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read for I am
  3. Isaiah 65:6 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read upon
  4. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa MT; LXX Syr read both their iniquities and their
  5. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read the hills
  6. Isaiah 65:7 So 1QIsaa MTqere; MT LXX read upon