Isaiah 65:1-7

Lexham English Bible

65 “I let myself be sought by those who did not ask;
    I let myself be found by those who did not seek me.
I said, ‘Here I am; here I am!’ to a nation that did not call on my name;
²     I spread out my hands all day to a stubborn people,
those who walk after their thoughts in the way that is not good,
³     the people who provoke^[a] me to anger continually to my face,
slaughtering for sacrifices in the garden,
    and making smoke offerings on bricks,
⁴ who sit^[b] in graves
    and spend the night in secret places,^[c]
who eat^[d] the flesh of swine
    with^[e] a fragment^[f] of impurity in their vessels,
⁵ who say,^[g] “Keep to yourself!^[h]
    You must not come near me, for I am too holy for you!”
These are a smoke in my nostrils,^[i]
    a fire burning all day.
⁶ Look! It is written before me: I will not be silent, but I will repay;
    and I will repay in^[j] the fold of their garment
⁷ your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors^[k] together, says Yahweh,
because they made smoke offerings on the mountains
    and they taunted me on the hills,
I will measure their punishment from the beginning into the fold of their garment.”