Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Isaiah 65:1-16
God’s people: servants or rebels? (65:1-16)It was God’s desire that Israel seek him and enjoy his blessings, but instead the nation rebelled against him and stubbornly went its own way. Only a minority within Israel, along with those of Gentile nations who turned to Israel’s God, were really God’s people (65:1-2). As for the people of Israel as a whole, they had throughout their long history repeatedly made God angry. They sacrificed to other gods, consulted the spirits of the dead and ate... read more
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Isaiah 65:12
Isaiah 65:12. Therefore will I number you to the sword “Here the allusion to meni, which signifies number, is obvious.” And you shall all bow down to the slaughter As you have bowed down to idols, which are my enemies, I will make you bow down to your enemies’ swords; because when I called Namely, by my prophets, you did not answer by doing the things that I enjoined. But did evil before mine eyes You sinned deliberately, choosing sinful courses, the things which I hated. It must... read more