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Isaiah 65:2

Isaiah 65:2
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

I have spread out mine hands all the day unto a rebellious people,.... Meaning Israel, as the apostle explains it, Rom 10:21, whom he calls a "disobedient and gainsaying people"; who believed not in…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

I have spread out my hands - To spread out the hands is an action denoting invitation or entreaty Pro 1:24. The sense is, that God had invited the Jews constantly to partake of his favors, but they…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 65:1-7

The apostle Paul (an expositor we may depend upon) has given us the true sense of these verses, and told us what was the event they pointed at and were fulfilled in, namely, the calling in of the…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

spread out mine hands The attitude of supplication; cf. Pro 1:24.

a rebellious( refractory, Hos 4:16) people LXX. has; λαὸν ἀπειθοῦντα καὶ ἀντιλέγοντα; and so the citation Rom 10:21.

a waythat was not…