OLD TESTAMENT

Isaiah 65:5

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

5

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 5. Unclean. Thus acted the hypocritical Pharisees.—Smoke. A just punishment of those who had sought the smoke of human applause.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter