New International Versiona people who continually provoke me to my very face, offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on altars of brick;
New Living TranslationAll day long they insult me to my face by worshiping idols in their sacred gardens. They burn incense on pagan altars.
English Standard Versiona people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and making offerings on bricks;
Berean Standard Bibleto a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
King James BibleA people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick;
New King James VersionA people who provoke Me to anger continually to My face; Who sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense on altars of brick;
New American Standard BibleA people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;
NASB 1995A people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;
NASB 1977A people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks;
Legacy Standard BibleA people who continually provoke Me to My face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,
Amplified BibleThe people who continually provoke Me to My face, Sacrificing [to idols] in gardens and making offerings with incense on bricks [instead of at the designated altar];
Christian Standard BibleThese people continually anger me to my face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,
Holman Christian Standard BibleThese people continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in gardens, burning incense on bricks,
American Standard Versiona people that provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
Contemporary English VersionThey keep making me angry by sneering at me, while offering sacrifices to idols in gardens and burning incense to them on bricks.
English Revised Versiona people that provoketh me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks;
GOD'S WORD® TranslationThese people constantly and openly provoked me. They offered sacrifices in gardens and burnt incense on brick altars.
Good News TranslationThey shamelessly keep on making me angry. They offer pagan sacrifices at sacred gardens and burn incense on pagan altars.
International Standard Versiona people who continually provoke me to my face; they keep sacrificing in gardens and waving their hands over stone altars;
NET BibleThese people continually and blatantly offend me as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards and burn incense on brick altars.
New Heart English Biblea people who provoke me to my face continually as they sacrifice in gardens and burn incense on bricks;
Webster's Bible TranslationA people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face; that sacrificeth in gardens, and burneth incense upon altars of brick; Majority Text Translations Majority Standard Bibleto a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick,
World English Biblea people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense on bricks; Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThe people who are continually provoking Me to anger, "" To My face, "" Sacrificing in gardens, and making incense on the bricks:
Young's Literal Translation The people who are provoking Me to anger, To My face continually, Sacrificing in gardens, and making perfume on the bricks:
Smith's Literal TranslationThe people irritating me to my face continually; sacrificing in gardens, and burning incense upon bricks; Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleA people that continually provoke me to anger before my face: that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.
Catholic Public Domain Versionto a people who provoke me to anger before my face continually, who immolate in the gardens, and who sacrifice upon the bricks.
New American BibleA people who provoke me continually to my face, Offering sacrifices in gardens and burning incense on bricks,
New Revised Standard Versiona people who provoke me to my face continually, sacrificing in gardens and offering incense on bricks; Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleA people who provoke me to anger continually, who sacrifice in the gardens and burn incense upon altars of bricks;
Peshitta Holy Bible TranslatedThe people who angers me constantly, sacrificing in gardens and laying sweet spices on stones OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917A people that provoke Me To My face continually, That sacrifice in gardens, And burn incense upon bricks;
Brenton Septuagint TranslationThis is the people that provokes me continually in my presence; they offer sacrifices in gardens, and burn incense on bricks to devils, which exist not.
Additional Translations ... Audio Bible
Context Judgments and Promises… 2All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations, 3to a peoplewho continuallyprovoke MetoMy face,sacrificingin the gardensand burning incenseonaltars of brick,4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.…
Cross References Deuteronomy 32:16-17They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations. / They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.
Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Ezekiel 8:17“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see this? Is it not enough for the house of Judah to commit the abominations they are practicing here, that they must also fill the land with violence and continually provoke Me to anger? Look, they are even putting the branch to their nose!
2 Kings 21:6He sacrificed his own son in the fire, practiced sorcery and divination, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
2 Chronicles 33:6He sacrificed his sons in the fire in the Valley of Ben-hinnom. He practiced sorcery, divination, and witchcraft, and consulted mediums and spiritists. He did great evil in the sight of the LORD, provoking Him to anger.
Leviticus 17:7They must no longer offer their sacrifices to the goat demons to which they have prostituted themselves. This will be a permanent statute for them for the generations to come.’
Psalm 106:37-38They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. / They shed innocent blood—the blood of their sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan, and the land was polluted with blood.
Hosea 4:12-13My people consult their wooden idols, and their divining rods inform them. For a spirit of prostitution leads them astray and they have played the harlot against their God. / They sacrifice on the mountaintops and burn offerings on the hills, under oak, poplar, and terebinth, because their shade is pleasant. And so your daughters turn to prostitution and your daughters-in-law to adultery.
Jeremiah 19:4-5because they have abandoned Me and made this a foreign place. They have burned incense in this place to other gods that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah have ever known. They have filled this place with the blood of the innocent. / They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
1 Corinthians 10:20-21No, but the sacrifices of pagans are offered to demons, not to God. And I do not want you to be participants with demons. / You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot partake in the table of the Lord and the table of demons too.
Romans 1:21-23For although they knew God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking and darkened in their foolish hearts. / Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools, / and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images of mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
Acts 7:42-43But God turned away from them and gave them over to the worship of the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? / You have taken along the tabernacle of Molech and the star of your god Rephan, the idols you made to worship. Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Babylon.’
2 Corinthians 6:16-17What agreement can exist between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: “I will dwell with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be My people.” / “Therefore come out from among them and be separate, says the Lord. Touch no unclean thing, and I will receive you.”
Revelation 9:20Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the works of their hands. They did not stop worshiping demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk.
Galatians 5:19-21The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Treasury of Scripture A people that provokes me to anger continually to my face; that sacrifices in gardens, and burns incense on altars of brick; a people Isaiah 3:8 For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doingsare against the LORD, to provoke the eyes of his glory. Deuteronomy 32:16-19,21 They provoked him to jealousy with strangegods, with abominations provoked they him to anger… 2 Kings 17:14-17 Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God… to my face Job 1:11 But put forth thine hand now, and touch all that he hath, and he will curse thee to thy face. Job 2:5 But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face. that sacrificeth Isaiah 1:29 For they shall be ashamed of the oaks which ye have desired, and ye shall be confounded for the gardens that ye have chosen. Isaiah 66:17 They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind onetree in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD. Leviticus 17:5 To the end that the children of Israel may bring their sacrifices, which they offer in the open field, even that they may bring them unto the LORD, unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, unto the priest, and offer themfor peace offerings unto the LORD. altars. Exodus 20:24,25 An altar of earth thou shalt make unto me, and shalt sacrifice thereon thy burnt offerings, and thy peace offerings, thy sheep, and thine oxen: in all places where I record my name I will come unto thee, and I will bless thee… Exodus 30:1-10 And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon:of shittim wood shalt thou make it… Jump to Previous AltarsAngerAngryBrickBricksBurnBurnethBurningContinuallyFaceGardensIncenseMakingOfferingOfferingsPerfumePerfumesProvokeProvokethProvokingSacrificeSacrificesSacrificethSacrificingJump to Next AltarsAngerAngryBrickBricksBurnBurnethBurningContinuallyFaceGardensIncenseMakingOfferingOfferingsPerfumePerfumesProvokeProvokethProvokingSacrificeSacrificesSacrificethSacrificingIsaiah 65 1.The calling of the Gentiles,2.and the rejection of the Jews, for their incredulity, idolatry, and hypocrisy8.A remnant shall be saved11.Judgments on the wicked, and blessings on the godly17.The blessed state of the new Jerusalemto a people who continually provoke Me to My faceThis phrase highlights the persistent rebellion of the Israelites against God. The direct provocation "to My face" indicates a blatant and intentional defiance, suggesting a deep-seated disrespect for God's authority. Historically, Israel's repeated disobedience is documented throughout the Old Testament, such as in the wilderness wanderings ( Numbers 14:11) and during the period of the judges ( Judges 2:11-19). This behavior contrasts with the covenant relationship God established with Israel, where obedience was expected ( Deuteronomy 28:1-2). The phrase also foreshadows the ultimate rejection of Christ by many in Israel, as seen in the New Testament ( John 1:11). sacrificing in the gardens
The reference to "gardens" indicates the practice of idolatry, as these were often sites for pagan worship. In ancient Near Eastern cultures, sacred groves or gardens were associated with fertility rites and the worship of deities like Asherah and Baal. This practice was explicitly forbidden in the Mosaic Law (Deuteronomy 16:21). The Israelites' engagement in such rituals reflects a syncretism that diluted their worship of Yahweh. This idolatry is condemned by prophets like Jeremiah (Jeremiah 2:20) and Ezekiel (Ezekiel 6:13), who called the people back to exclusive worship of the Lord. and burning incense on altars of brick
Burning incense was a common practice in both legitimate and illegitimate worship. However, the use of "altars of brick" suggests unauthorized worship, as God commanded that altars be made of uncut stones (Exodus 20:25). The use of brick, a man-made material, symbolizes human innovation in worship, contrary to divine instruction. This reflects a broader theme of human pride and self-reliance, which is condemned throughout Scripture (Isaiah 2:11-12). The burning of incense in this context is linked to idolatrous practices, as seen in the worship of foreign gods (Jeremiah 44:8). This rebellion against God's prescribed worship points to the need for a perfect mediator, fulfilled in Jesus Christ, who offers true and acceptable worship to God (Hebrews 9:11-14). Persons / Places / Events 1. The People of IsraelThe primary audience of Isaiah's prophecy, often depicted as rebellious and idolatrous in their practices. 2. GardensPlaces where the Israelites engaged in idolatrous worship, contrary to God's commands. 3. Altars of BrickRepresents unauthorized and pagan worship practices, as altars were traditionally made of unhewn stone according to God's instructions. 4. IsaiahThe prophet delivering God's message of judgment and hope to the people of Israel. 5. GodThe one being provoked by the people's idolatry and disobedience. Teaching Points Idolatry in Modern ContextsJust as the Israelites were drawn to idolatry, we must be vigilant against modern forms of idolatry, such as materialism, career, or personal ambitions that take precedence over God. The Importance of True WorshipWorship should be conducted in spirit and truth, aligning with God's instructions rather than personal preferences or cultural trends. Provoking GodOur actions and choices can either honor God or provoke Him. We must strive to live in a way that pleases Him, avoiding behaviors that lead to His displeasure. Repentance and RestorationDespite the people's rebellion, God offers hope and restoration to those who repent. We should seek His forgiveness and turn from our ways. The Role of ProphetsProphets like Isaiah were sent to call people back to God. We should heed the warnings and teachings found in Scripture, allowing them to guide our lives. Lists and Questions Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 65
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Isaiah 65:20: Why is there no historical or archaeological evidence of humans living extended lifespans described here?
If Isaiah 35 refers to literal transformations, how do we reconcile these claims with the lack of documented large-scale ecological changes in the region?(3) That sacriflceth in gardens.--It is not without significance, as bearing on the date of the chapter, that the practice was common in Judah under Ahaz. (Comp. Isaiah 1:29, Mi. 5; Ezekiel 20:28.) Burneth incense upon altars of brick.--Literally,on the bricks,and possibly, therefore, on the roofs of houses, as was common in the idolatrous practices of Judah (2Kings 23:12;Jeremiah 19:13). By some interpreters the words are referred, though with less probability, to the brick altars which the exiles are supposed to have used at Babylon, and were forbidden by the Law (Exodus 20:24-25). . . . Verse 3. - That sacrificeth ingardens (comp. Isaiah 1:29; Isaiah 57:5; Isaiah 66:17). The groves and "gardens" of Daphne, near Antioch. became famous in later times as the scene of idolatrous practices intimately bound up with the grossest and most shameless sensualism. We have few details of the ancient Syrian rites; but there is reason to believe that, wherever Astarte, the Dea Syra, was worshipped, whether at Daphne, or at Hierapolis, or at Balbek, or at Aphek, or at Damascus, or in Palestine, one and the same character of cult prevailed. The nature-goddess was viewed as best worshipped by rites into which sensualism entered as an essential element. Profligacy that cannot be described polluted the consecrated precincts, which were rendered attractive by all that was beautiful and delightful, whether in art or nature-by groves, gardens, statues, fountains, shrines, temples, music, processions, shows - and which were in consequence frequented both day and night by a multitude of votaries. And burneth incense upon altars of brick; literally, upon the bricks. It is not clear that "altars" are intended. More probably the incense was burnt upon the tiled or bricked roofs of houses, where the Jews of Jeremiah's time "burned incense unto all the host of heaven" ( Jeremiah 19:13; Jeremiah 32:29; Zephaniah 1:5). Brick altars are nowhere mentioned. The Assyrians and Babylonians made their altars of either stone or metal ('Ancient Monarchies,' vol. 2. pp. 36, 37; Herod., 1. 183). The Hebrews in early times had altars of earth ( Exodus 20:24). The "altar of incense" in the tabernacle ( Exodus 30:1-3) was of wood plated with gold; that of burnt offering, of wood plated with bronze ( Exodus 27:1, 2). Solomon's altars were similar. Elijah on one occasion made an altar of twelve rough stones ( 1 Kings 18:31). The Assyrians used polished stone, as did the Greeks and Romans.
Parallel Commentaries ...
Hebrew to a peopleהָעָ֗ם(hā·‘ām)Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971:A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flockwho continuallyתָּמִ֑יד(tā·mîḏ)Adverb
Strong's 8548:Continuance, constant, ellipt, the regular, sacrificeprovoke Meהַמַּכְעִיסִ֥ים(ham·maḵ·‘î·sîm)Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3707:To trouble, to grieve, rage, be indignanttoעַל־(‘al-)Preposition
Strong's 5921:Above, over, upon, againstMy face,פָּנַ֖י(pā·nay)Noun - masculine plural construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6440:The facesacrificingזֹֽבְחִים֙(zō·ḇə·ḥîm)Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 2076:To slaughter for sacrificein the gardensבַּגַּנּ֔וֹת(bag·gan·nō·wṯ)Preposition-b, Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 1593:A gardenand burning incenseוּֽמְקַטְּרִ֖ים(ū·mə·qaṭ·ṭə·rîm)Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 6999:To smoke, turn into fragrance by fireonעַל־(‘al-)Preposition
Strong's 5921:Above, over, upon, againstaltars of brick,הַלְּבֵנִֽים׃(hal·lə·ḇê·nîm)Article | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 3843:Brick, tile
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