Charles Ellicott Commentary


Charles Ellicott Commentary
"your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together, saith Jehovah, that have burned incense upon the mountains, and blasphemed me upon the hills; therefore will I first measure their work into their bosom." — Isaiah 65:7 (ASV)
Which have burned incense upon the mountains ... —The old deep-rooted sin of the worship of high places (Hosea 4:13; Ezekiel 6:13; 2 Kings 15:4; 2 Kings 15:35). The worship paid there to other gods, or nominally to Jehovah in a way which He had forbidden, was practically a “blasphemy” or “reproach” against Him.
Their former work. —Better, I will measure their work first into their bosoms. That was, so to speak, the primary duty of the Supreme Ruler.