Isaiah 65:7
Good News Translation
for their sins and the sins of their ancestors. They have burned incense at pagan hill shrines and spoken evil of me. So I will punish them as their past deeds deserve."

New Revised Standard Version
their iniquities and their ancestors’ iniquities together, says the LORD; because they offered incense on the mountains and reviled me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their actions.

Contemporary English Version
I, the LORD, will make them pay for their sins and for those of their ancestors--they have disgraced me by burning incense on mountains.

New American Bible
Your crimes and the crimes of your ancestors as well, says the LORD. Since they burned incense on the mountains, and insulted me on the hills, I will at once pour out in full measure their recompense into their laps.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.

your iniquities

Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Leviticus 26:39 And if of them also some remain, they shall pine away in their iniquities, in the land of their enemies: and they shall be afflicted for the sins of their fathers, and their own.

Numbers 32:14 And behold, said he, you are risen up instead of your fathers, the increase and offspring of sinful men, to augment the fury of the Lord against Israel.

Psalm 106:6,7 We have sinned with our fathers: we have acted unjustly, we have wrought iniquity. . . .

Daniel 9:8 O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, that have sinned.

Matthew 23:31-36 Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets. . . .

burned

Isaiah 57:7 Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.

1 Kings 22:43 And he walked in all the way of Asa, his father, and he declined not from it: and he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord. [44] Nevertheless, he took not away the high places for as yet the people offered sacrifice, and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 12:3 But yet he took not away the high places: for the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.

2 Kings 14:4 But this only, that he took not away the high places; for yet the people sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places:

2 Kings 15:35 But the high places he took not away: the people still sacrificed, and burnt incense in the high places: he built the highest gate of the house of the Lord.

2 Kings 16:4 He sacrificed also, and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.

Ezekiel 18:6 And hath not eaten upon the mountains, nor lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel: and hath not defiled his neighbour's wife, nor come near to a menstruous woman:

blasphemed

Ezekiel 20:27,28 Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blaspheme me, when they had despised and contemned me; . . .

therefore

Isaiah 65:6 Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom.

Jeremiah 5:9,29 Shall I not visit for these things, saith the Lord? and shall not my soul take revenge on such a nation? . . .

Jeremiah 7:19,20 Do they provoke me to anger, saith the Lord? is it not themselves, to the confusion of their own countenance? . . .

Jeremiah 13:25 This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

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

1 Thessalonians 2:16 Prohibiting us to speak to the Gentiles, that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always: for the wrath of God is come upon them to the end.

Context
Judgments and Promises
6Behold it is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will render and repay into their bosom. 7Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith the Lord, who have sacrificed upon the mountains, and have reproached me upon the hills; and I will measure back their first work in their bosom.8Thus saith the Lord: As if a grain be found in a cluster, and it be said: Destroy it not, because it is a blessing: so will I do for the sake of my servants, that I may not destroy the whole.…
Cross References
Luke 6:38
Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

Isaiah 3:11
Woe to the wicked unto evil: for the reward of his hands shall be given him.

Isaiah 10:12
And it shall come to pass, that when the Lord shall have performed all his works in mount Sion, and in Jerusalem, I will visit the fruit of the proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of the haughtiness of his eyes.

Isaiah 13:11
And I will visit the evils of the world, and against the wicked for their iniquity: and I will make the pride of infidels to cease, and will bring down the arrogancy of the mighty.

Isaiah 22:14
And the voice of the Lord of hosts was revealed in my ears: Surely this iniquity shall not be forgiven you till you die, saith the Lord God of hosts.

Isaiah 26:21
For behold the Lord will come out of his place, to visit the iniquity of the inhabitant of the earth against him: and the earth shall disclose her blood, and shall cover her slain no more.

Isaiah 28:21
For the Lord shall stand up as in the mountain of divisions: he shall be angry as in the valley which is in Gabaon: that he may do his work, his strange work: that he may perform his work, his work is strange to him.

Isaiah 29:14
Therefore behold I will proceed to cause an admiration in this people, by a great and wonderful miracle: for wisdom shall perish from their wise men, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.

Isaiah 30:13
Therefore shall this iniquity be to you as a breach that falleth, and is found wanting in a high wall, for the destruction thereof shall come on a sudden, when it is not looked for.

Isaiah 30:14
And it shall be broken small, as the potter's vessel is broken all to pieces with mighty breaking, and there shall not a sherd be found of the pieces thereof, wherein a little fire may be carried from the hearth, or a little water be drawn out of the pit.

Isaiah 57:7
Upon a high and lofty mountain thou hast laid thy bed, and hast gone up thither to offer victims.

Isaiah 57:12
I will declare thy justice, and thy works shall not profit thee.

Isaiah 59:18
As unto revenge, as it were to repay wrath to his adversaries, and a reward to his enemies: he will repay the like to the islands.

Isaiah 66:4
Wherefore I also will choose their mockeries, and will bring upon them the things they feared: because I called, and there was none that would answer; I have spoken, and they heard not; and they have done evil in my eyes, and have chosen the things that displease me.

Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, and the portion of thy measure from me, saith the Lord, because thou hast forgotten me, and hast trusted in falsehood.

Jeremiah 13:27
I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighing, the wickedness of thy fornication: and thy abominations, upon the hills in the field. Woe to thee, Jerusalem, wilt thou not be made clean after me: how long yet?

Ezekiel 20:27
Wherefore speak to the house of Israel, O son of man, and say to them: Thus saith the Lord God: Moreover in this also your fathers blaspheme me, when they had despised and contemned me;

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.

Hosea 2:13
And I will visit upon her the days of Baalim, to whom she burnt incense, and decked herself out with her earrings, and with her jewels, and went after her lovers, and forgot me, saith the Lord.

Hosea 11:2
As they called them, they went away from before their face: they offered victims to Baalim, and sacrificed to idols.

Isaiah 65:6
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