Isaiah 65:2

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“All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,”

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BSBPD

“All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;”

King James Version · Public Domain
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“I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, that walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“I have spread out My hands all the day Unto an apostate people, Who are going in the way not good after their own thoughts.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 65:2 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Genesis 6:5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was altogether evil all the time.
  2. Numbers 15:39These will serve as tassels for you to look at, so that you may remember all the commandments of the LORD, that you may obey them and not prostitute yourselves by following your own heart and your own eyes.
  3. Deuteronomy 9:7Remember this, and never forget how you provoked the LORD your God in the wilderness. From the day you left the land of Egypt until you reached this place, you have been rebelling against the LORD.
  4. Deuteronomy 29:19because when such a person hears the words of this oath, he invokes a blessing on himself, saying, ‘I will have peace, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my own heart.’ This will bring disaster on the watered land as well as the dry.
  5. Deuteronomy 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
  6. Psalms 36:4Even on his bed he plots wickedness; he sets himself on a path that is not good; he fails to reject evil.
  7. Psalms 36:5Your loving devotion, O LORD, reaches to the heavens, Your faithfulness to the clouds.
  8. Psalms 81:11But My people would not listen to Me, and Israel would not obey Me.
  9. Proverbs 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
  10. Proverbs 16:29A violent man entices his neighbor and leads him down a path that is not good.
  11. Isaiah 1:2Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.
  12. Isaiah 1:23Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
  13. Isaiah 55:7Let the wicked man forsake his own way and the unrighteous man his own thoughts; let him return to the LORD, that He may have compassion, and to our God, for He will freely pardon.
  14. Isaiah 59:7Their feet run to evil; they are swift to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful thoughts; ruin and destruction lie in their wake.
  15. Isaiah 59:8The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their tracks. They have turned them into crooked paths; no one who treads on them will know peace.
  16. Isaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
  17. Isaiah 66:4So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”
  18. Isaiah 66:18“And I, knowing their deeds and thoughts, am coming to gather all nations and tongues, and they will come and see My glory.
  19. Jeremiah 3:17At that time Jerusalem will be called The Throne of the LORD, and all the nations will be gathered in Jerusalem to honor the name of the LORD. They will no longer follow the stubbornness of their evil hearts.
  20. Jeremiah 4:14Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within you?
  21. Jeremiah 5:23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
  22. Jeremiah 7:24Yet they did not listen or incline their ear, but they followed the stubborn inclinations of their own evil hearts. They went backward and not forward.
  23. Jeremiah 18:12But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
  24. Ezekiel 2:3“Son of man,” He said to me, “I am sending you to the Israelites, to a rebellious nation that has rebelled against Me. To this very day they and their fathers have rebelled against Me.

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