Isaiah 66:4

So I will choose severe punishment ¹  for them; I will bring on them what they dread, because I called, and no one responded, I spoke and they did not listen. They did evil before me; ²  they chose to do what displeases me.”

1Ki 22:19-23; 2Ki 21:2,6; Ps 81:12; Pr 1:24; Pr 1:31,32; Pr 10:24; Isa 50:2; Isa 65:3; Isa 65:12; Jer 7:13; Mt 22:2-7; Mt 24:24; 2Th 2:10-12

¹ tn The precise meaning of the noun is uncertain. It occurs only here and in 3:4 (but see the note there). It appears to be derived from the verbal root עָלַל (’alal), which can carry the nuance “deal severely.”

² tn Heb “that which is evil in my eyes.”