Isaiah 65:3

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 

Isaiah 65:2

65:2 I spread out my hands all day long

to my rebellious people,

who lived in a way that is morally unacceptable,

and who did what they desired. ⁴ 

Isaiah 21:2

21:2 I have received a distressing message: ⁵ 

“The deceiver deceives,

the destroyer destroys.

Attack, you Elamites!

Lay siege, you Medes!

I will put an end to all the groaning!” ⁶ 

Isaiah 21:6

21:6 For this is what the sovereign master ⁷  has told me:

“Go, post a guard!

He must report what he sees.

[65:3]  ¹ tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ² tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ³ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”

[65:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “who walked [in] the way that is not good, after their thoughts.”

[21:2]  ⁵ tn Heb “a severe revelation has been related to me.”

[21:2]  ⁶ sn This is often interpreted to mean “all the groaning” that Babylon has caused others.

[21:6]  ⁷ tn The Hebrew term translated “sovereign master” here and in vv. 8, 16 is אֲדֹנָי (’adonay).