Isaiah 66:4 BSB — MannaFest

Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose their punishment and I will bring terror upon them, because I called and no one answered, I spoke and no one listened. But they did evil in My sight and chose that in which I did not delight.”

BSB

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ASV

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did that which was evil in mine eyes, and chose that wherein I delighted not.

KJV

I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

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Commentary

4 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Isaiah (420)

(Verse 4.) They have chosen all these things in their ways, and their soul delighted in their abominations. Therefore I will also choose their delusions, and I will bring upon them what they feared. Because when I called, there was none that answered; when I spoke, they did not hear. They did evil in my sight and chose what I did not desire. (Septuagint: And they chose their own ways, and their soul desired their abominations; and I will choose their delusions, and I will repay them for their sins.)

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The unbelieving Jews, after the gospel was preached and in it notice given of the offering up of the great sacrifice, which put an end to all the ceremonial services, continued to offer sacrifices, as if the law of Moses had been still in force and could make the comers thereunto perfect: this was an abomination.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

I also will choose their delusions - Margin, ‘Devices.’ The Hebrew word rendered here ‘delusions’ and ‘devices’ (תעלוּלים ta‛ălûlı̂ym) properly denotes petulance, sauciness; and then vexation, adverse destiny, from עלל ‛âlal, to do, to accomplish, to do evil, to maltreat. It is not used in the sense of delusions, or devices; and evidently here means the same as calamity or punishment. Compare the Hebrew in Lam 1:

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

However, the Hebrew means rather "vexations," "calamities," which also the parallelism to "fears" requires; "choose their calamities" means, "choose the calamities which they thought to escape by their own ways." their fears--the things they feared, to avert which their idolatrous "abominations" (Isa 66:3) were practised.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
אֲנִ֞י	'a.Ni	I	H589 →
אֶבְחַ֣ר	'ev.Char	I will choose	H977 →
בְּתַעֲלֻלֵיהֶ֗ם	be.ta.'a.lu.lei.Hem	<in> punishments their	H8586 →
וּמְגֽוּרֹתָם֙	u.me.gu.ro.Tam	and fears their	H4035 →
אָבִ֣יא	'a.Vi'	I will bring	H935 →
לָהֶ֔ם	la.Hem	to them
יַ֤עַן	Ya.'an	because	H3282 →
קָרָ֙אתִי֙	ka.Ra.ti	I called	H7121 →
וְאֵ֣ין	ve.'Ein	and there not	H369 →
עוֹנֶ֔ה	o.Neh	[was one who] answered	H6030 →
דִּבַּ֖רְתִּי	di.Bar.ti	I spoke	H1696 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
שָׁמֵ֑עוּ	sha.Me.'u	they listened	H8085 →
וַיַּעֲשׂ֤וּ	vai.ya.'a.Su	and they did	H6213 →
הָרַע֙	ha.Ra'	the evil	H7451 →
בְּעֵינַ֔י	be.'ei.Nai	in view my	H5869 →
וּבַאֲשֶׁ֥ר	u.va.'a.Sher	and <in> [that] which	H834 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
חָפַ֖צְתִּי	cha.Fatz.ti	I desired	H2654 →
בָּחָֽרוּ׃ ס	ba.Cha.ru	they chose	H977 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Proverbs 1:24
Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
leads to
- Jeremiah 7:13
  And now, because you have done all these things, declares the LORD, and because I have spoken to you again and again but you would not listen, and I have called to you but…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Romans 10:21
  But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
- Isaiah 65:12
  I will destine you for the sword, and you will all kneel down to be slaughtered, because I called and you did not answer, I spoke and you did not listen; you did evil…
Through
Proverbs 10:24
What the wicked man dreads will overtake him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.
leads to
- Psalms 145:19
  He fulfills the desires of those who fear Him; He hears their cry and saves them.
- Matthew 5:6
  Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- Job 15:21
  Sounds of terror fill his ears; in his prosperity the destroyer attacks him.
- 1 John 5:14–15
  And this is the confidence that we have before Him: If we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.
- Psalms 37:4
  Delight yourself in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart.

About Isaiah

The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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