65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me 1
as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards 2
and burn incense on brick altars. 3
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 4 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 5 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 6
1 tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”
2 tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).
3 tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”
4 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
5 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
6 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.