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They say, ‘Keep to yourself!
Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’
These people are like smoke in my nostrils,
like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
Look, I have decreed:[a]
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve,[b]
for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,”[c] says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended[d] me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.”[e]

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:6 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
  2. Isaiah 65:6 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
  3. Isaiah 65:7 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
  4. Isaiah 65:7 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
  5. Isaiah 65:7 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.