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Isaiah 65:11

Isaiah 65:11
But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop , and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

But ye are they that forsake the Lord,.... Here the Lord returns to the body of the people again, the unbelievers and rejecters of the Messiah, who turned away from him, would not hear his doctrine,…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

But ye are they that forsake the Lord - Or rather, ‘Ye who forsake Yahweh, and who forget my holy mountain, I will number to the sword.’ The design of this verse is to remind them of their idolatries,…

Methodist theologian, 1762–1832

Adam Clarke

That prepare a table for that troop "Who set in order a table for Gad" - The disquisitions and conjectures of the learned concerning Gad and Meni are infinite and uncertain: perhaps the most probable…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 65:11-16

Here the different states of the godly and wicked, of the Jews that believed and of those that still persisted in unbelief, are set the one over - against the other, as life and death, good and evil,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Isaiah 65:11-12

A renewed threat against the apostates, with a further allusion to their idolatry.

But ye are they that forsake &c. Render: But as for you that forsake Jehovah (ch. Isa 1:4) &c. The whole verse is a…