Isaiah 65:6-7

65:6 Look, I have decreed: ¹ 

I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;

I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, ² 

65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” ³  says the Lord.

“Because they burned incense on the mountains

and offended ⁴  me on the hills,

I will punish them in full measure.” ⁵ 

[65:6]  ¹ tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”

[65:6]  ² tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”

[65:7]  ³ tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”

[65:7]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”

[65:7]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.