Isaiah 65:2
Good News Translation
I have always been ready to welcome my people, who stubbornly do what is wrong and go their own way.

New Revised Standard Version
I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Contemporary English Version
All day long I have reached out to stubborn and sinful people going their own way.

New American Bible
I have stretched out my hands all day to a rebellious people, Who walk in a way that is not good, following their own designs;

Douay-Rheims Bible
I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.

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Proverbs 1:24 You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Matthew 23:37 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets and stonest them that are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered together thy children, as the hen doth gather her chickens under her wings, and thou wouldst not?

Luke 13:34 Jerusalem, Jerusalem, that killest the prophets; and stonest them that are sent to thee, how often would I have gathered thy children as the bird doth her brood under her wings, and thou wouldest not?

Luke 19:41,42 And when he drew near, seeing the city, he wept over it, saying: . . .

Romans 10:21 But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me.

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Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

Isaiah 63:10 But they provoked to wrath, and afflicted the spirit of his Holy One: and he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.

Deuteronomy 9:7 Remember, and forget not how thou provokedst the Lord thy God to wrath in the wilderness. From the day that thou camest out of Egypt unto this place, thou hast always strove against the Lord.

Deuteronomy 31:27 For I know thy obstinacy, and thy most stiff neck. While I am yet living, and going in with you, you have always been rebellious against the Lord: how much more when I shall be dead?

Jeremiah 5:23 But the heart of this people is become hard of belief and provoking, they are revolted and gone away.

Ezekiel 2:3-7 And saying: Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious people, that hath revolted from me, they, and their fathers, have transgressed my covenant even unto this day. . . .

Acts 7:51,52 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also. . . .

1 Thessalonians 2:15,16 Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and the prophets, and have persecuted us, and please not God, and are adversaries to all men; . . .

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Isaiah 59:7,8 Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways. . . .

Psalm 36:4 He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Proverbs 16:29 An unjust man allureth his friend: and leadeth him into a way that is not good.

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Isaiah 55:7 Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.

Genesis 6:5 And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,

Numbers 15:39 That when they shall see them, they may remember all the commandments of the Lord, and not follow their own thoughts and eyes going astray after divers things,

Deuteronomy 29:19 And when he shall hear the words of this oath, he should bless himself in his heart saying: I shall have peace, and will walk on in the naughtiness of my heart: and the drunken may consume the thirsty,

Psalm 81:12 So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Jeremiah 3:17 At that time Jerusalem shall be called the throne of the Lord: and all the nations shall be gathered together to it, in the name of the Lord to Jerusalem, and they shall not walk after the perversity of their most wicked heart.

Jeremiah 4:14 Wash thy heart from wickedness, O Jerusalem, that thou mayst be saved: how long shall hurtful thoughts abide in thee?

Jeremiah 7:24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear: but walked in their own will, and in the perversity of their wicked heart: and went backward and not forward,

Matthew 12:33,34 Either make the tree good and its fruit good: or make the tree evil, and its fruit evil. For by the fruit the tree is known. . . .

Matthew 15:19 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Romans 2:5 But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath and revelation of the just judgment of God:

James 1:14,15 But every man is tempted by his own concupiscence, being drawn away and allured. . . .

Context
Judgments and Promises
1They have sought me that before asked not for me, they have found me that sought me not. I said: Behold me, behold me, to a nation that did not call upon my name. 2I have spread forth my hands all the day to an unbelieving people, who walk in a way that is not good after their own thoughts.3A people that continually provoke me to anger before my face, that immolate in gardens, and sacrifice upon bricks.…
Cross References
Romans 10:21
But to Israel he saith: All the day long have I spread my hands to a people that believeth not and contradicteth me.

Psalm 36:4
He hath devised iniquity on his bed, he hath set himself on every way that is not good: but evil he hath not hated.

Psalm 81:11
But my people heard not my voice: and Israel hearkened not to me.

Psalm 81:12
So I let them go according to the desires of their heart: they shall walk in their own inventions.

Proverbs 1:24
You have despised all my counsel, and have neglected my reprehensions.

Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath spoken. I have brought up children, and exalted them: but they have despised me.

Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are faithless, companions of thieves: they all love bribes, they run after rewards. They judge not for the fatherless: and the widow's cause cometh not in to them.

Isaiah 30:1
Woe to you, apostate children, saith the Lord, that you would take counsel, and not of me: and would begin a web, and not by my spirit, that you might add sin upon sin:

Isaiah 30:9
For it is a people that provoketh to wrath, and lying children that will not hear the law of God.

Isaiah 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Isaiah 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are unprofitable thoughts: wasting and destruction are in their ways.

Isaiah 66:3
He that sacrificeth an ox, is as if he slew a man: he that killeth a sheep in sacrifice, as if he should brain a dog: he that offereth an oblation, as if he should offer swine's blood; he that remembereth incense, as if he should bless an idol. All these things have they chosen in their ways, and their soul is delighted in their abominations.

Isaiah 66:18
But I know their works, and their thoughts: I come that I may gather them together with all nations and tongues: and they shall come and shall see my glory.

Isaiah 65:1
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