Isaiah 65:3
Good News Translation
They shamelessly keep on making me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices at sacred gardens and burn incense on pagan altars.

New Revised Standard Version
a people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and offering incense on bricks;

Contemporary English Version
They keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.

New American Bible
A people who provoke me continually to my face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,

Douay-Rheims Bible
A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.

a people

Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Deuteronomy 32:16-19,21 They provoked him by strange gods, and stirred him up to anger, with their abominations. . . .

2 Kings 17:14-17 And they hearkened not, but hardened their necks like to the neck of their fathers, who would not obey the Lord, their God. . . .

2 Kings 22:17 Because they have forsaken me, and have sacrificed to strange gods, provoking me by all the works of their hands: therefore my indignation shall be kindled against this place, and shall not be quenched.

Psalm 78:40,58 How often did they provoke him in the desert: and move him to wrath in the place without water? . . .

Jeremiah 32:30-35 For the children of Israel, and the children of Juda, have continually done evil in my eyes from their youth: the children of Israel who even till now provoke me with the work of their hands, saith the Lord. . . .

Ezekiel 8:17,18 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose. . . .

Matthew 23:32-36 Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. . . .

to my face

Job 1:11 But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Job 2:5 But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

that sacrificeth

Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 66:17 They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Leviticus 17:5 Therefore the children of Israel shall bring to the priest their victims, which they kill in the field, that they may be sanctified to the Lord before the door of the tabernacle of the testimony: and they may sacrifice them for peace offerings to the Lord.

Jeremiah 3:6 And the Lord said to me in the days of king Josias: Hast thou seen what rebellious Israel hath done? she hath gone of herself upon every high mountain, and under every green tree, and hath played the harlot there.

Ezekiel 20:28 And I had brought them into the land, for which I lifted up my hand to give it them: they saw every high hill, and every shady tree, and there they sacrificed their victims: and there they presented the provocation of their offerings, and there they set their sweet odours, and poured forth their libations.

altars.

Exodus 20:24,25 You shall make an altar of earth unto me, and you shall offer upon it your holocausts and peace offerings, your sheep and oxen, in every place where the memory of my name shall be: I will come to thee, and will bless thee. . . .

Exodus 30:1-10 Thou shalt make also an altar to burn incense, of setim wood. . . .

Context
Judgments and Promises
2I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts. 3A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.4That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.…
Cross References
Job 1:11
But stretch forth thy hand a little, and touch all that he hath, and see if he bless thee not to thy face.

Job 2:5
But put forth thy hand, and touch his bone and his flesh, and then thou shalt see that he will bless thee to thy face.

Psalm 78:58
They provoked him to anger on their hills: and moved him to jealousy with their graven things.

Isaiah 1:29
For they shall be confounded for the idols, to which they have sacrificed: and you shall be ashamed of the gardens which you have chosen.

Isaiah 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue, and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

Isaiah 66:3
He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Isaiah 66:17
They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 65:2
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