“who say, ‘Stay by yourself,don’t come near to me,for I am holier than you.’These are smoke in my nose,a fire that burns all day.”
Isaiah 65:5 (WEB)
Context Reading
3a people who provoke me to my face continually,sacrificing in gardens,and burning incense on bricks; 4who sit among the graves,and spend nights in secret places;who eat pig’s meat,and broth of abominable things is in their vessels; 5who say, ‘Stay by yourself,don’t come near to me,for I am holier than you.’These are smoke in my nose,a fire that burns all day. 6“Behold, it is written before me:I will not keep silence,but will repay,yes, I will repay into their bosom 7your own iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh,“who have burned incense on the mountains,and blasphemed me on the hills.Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”