Isaiah 66:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ I also will chuse their delusions, and pay them back their sins. Because I called them and they did not answer; I spake, but they did not listen:;but did that which is evil in my sight, and chose the things in which I did not delight;

¹⁹ Whereupon Michaias said, It is not so. It is not I. Hear a word of the Lord. Is not this the case? I saw the God of Israel seated on his throne, and all the hosts of heaven stood around him, some on the right and some on the left. ²⁰ And the Lord said, Who will deceive Achab king of Israel that he may go up and fall at Remmath Galaad? And when one spoke in this manner and another in that, ²¹ there came forth a spirit and stood before the Lord, and said, I will deceive him. ²² And the Lord said to him, How? And he said, I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt deceive him and actually prevail. Go and do so. ²³ Now therefore behold the Lord hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of thine; but the Lord hath spoken evils against thee.

² And he did evil in the sight of the Lord, according to all the abominable acts of the nations which the Lord had removed from before Israel.

⁶ and made his sons pass through fire, and consulted omens, and auguries, and built temples, and multiplied diviners, to do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

¹² Therefore I gave them up to the devices of their own hearts. Let them walk in their own devices.

²⁴ seeing I have called and you have not answered: and though I continued my speech, you did not attend:

³¹ Let them eat, therefore, the fruits of their own way; and be filled with their own iniquity. ³² For, because they wronged infants they shall be slain: and a rigorous inquest shall destroy the wicked.

²⁴ A wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

² Why, when I came, was there no man? And why, when I called, did none answer? Is my hand unable to save? Or have I no power to rescue? Behold with my rebuke I can dry up the sea, and make the rivers a desert, so that the fishes thereof shall shrivel for want of water, and die for thirst. I can clothe the heaven with darkness, and make its covering like sackcloth.

³ This people are provoking me continually to my face. They will sacrifice in the gardens and burn incense on the tiles, to demons which have not an existence.

¹² you I will deliver up to the sword; you shall all bow down to slaughter. Because I called and you answered not: I spake and you would not listen; but did what is evil in my sight; and chose the things in which I did not delight;

¹³ Now therefore because you have done all these things: and I have spoken to you and you have not hearkened to me; and I have called you and you have not answered;

² The reign of the heavens may be compared to a temporal king, who made a marriage feast for his son. ³ And he sent his servants to call them who were invited to the wedding, but they would not come. ⁴ Again he sent other servants, saying, Tell them who have been invited, Behold I have prepared my dinner. My bullocks and my fatlings are killed and all things are ready. Come to the wedding feast. ⁵ But they turned away with indifference, one to his farm, and another to his merchandise ⁶ and the rest seized his servants, insulted, and slew them. ⁷ When the king heard this he was incensed, and sent forth his armies, and destroyed the murderers, and burned their city.

²⁴ For false Christs and false prophets will rise up and give out great signs and wonders, so as to deceive, if it were possible, even the chosen.

¹⁰ and with all the deceit of this unrighteousness among them who perish. Because they did not embrace the love of the truth that they might be saved; ¹¹ for this cause therefore God will send them the energy of delusion, that they may believe this falsehood; ¹² that all may be condemned who have not believed the truth, but have taken pleasure in unrighteousness.