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a people who continually provoke me to my face;
    they[a] keep sacrificing in gardens
        and waving their hands[b] over stone[c] altars;
who sit among graves,
    and spend the night in secret places;
who eat pigs’ meat,
    with the broth[d] of detestable things in[e] their pots;
who say, ‘Keep to yourself!’
    ‘Don’t touch[f] me!’ and ‘I am[g] too holy for you!’

“Such people are smoke in my nostrils,
    a fire that keeps burning all day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa LXX; MT reads who
  2. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read and offering incense
  3. Isaiah 65:3 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read brick
  4. Isaiah 65:4 So 1QIsaa MTqere LXX Targ Vulg; MT reads violence; or crumbs
  5. Isaiah 65:4 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX lack in
  6. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read come near to
  7. Isaiah 65:5 So 1QIsaa; MT LXX read for I am

a people who continually provoke me
    to my very face,(A)
offering sacrifices in gardens(B)
    and burning incense(C) on altars of brick;
who sit among the graves(D)
    and spend their nights keeping secret vigil;
who eat the flesh of pigs,(E)
    and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;
who say, ‘Keep away; don’t come near me,
    for I am too sacred(F) for you!’
Such people are smoke(G) in my nostrils,
    a fire that keeps burning all day.

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