65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself!
Don’t get near me, for I am holier than you!’
These people are like smoke in my nostrils,
like a fire that keeps burning all day long.
65:6 Look, I have decreed: 1
I will not keep silent, but will pay them back;
I will pay them back exactly what they deserve, 2
65:7 for your sins and your ancestors’ sins,” 3 says the Lord.
“Because they burned incense on the mountains
and offended 4 me on the hills,
I will punish them in full measure.” 5
1 tn Heb “Look, it is written before me.”
2 tn Heb “I will pay back into their lap.”
3 tn Heb “the iniquities of your fathers.”
4 tn Or perhaps, “taunted”; KJV “blasphemed”; NAB “disgraced”; NASB “scorned”; NIV “defied”; NRSV “reviled.”
5 tn Heb “I will measure out their pay [from the] beginning into their lap,” i.e., he will give them everything they have earned.