Behold, it is [a]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 [b]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.

Thus saith the Lord, As the wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not, for a [c]blessing is in it, so will I do for my servants’ sakes, that I may not destroy them whole.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:6 So that the remembrance thereof cannot be forgotten.
  2. 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.
  3. Isaiah 65:8 That is, it is profitable: meaning, that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroyeth the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.

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