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Isaiah 65:2

Isaiah 65:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public Domain

I have spread out my hands. Not exactly in prayer, but in expostulation (comp. , "I have stretched out my hand," where the verb in the Hebrew is the same). All the day; or, all day long, as in ; i.

e. continually, day after day, for years—nay, for centuries. A rebellions people (comp. ; and see also , ; ; ; ). The "rebellions people" ('am sorer) is undoubtedly Israel.

In a way that was not good; rather, in the way that is not good; i.e. the "way of sinners" ()—the "way that leadeth to destruction" ().

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