Isaiah 65:11

God rebukes those who forsake Him and worship the gods of Fortune and Destiny. It matters because it warns against trusting luck or fate instead of the living God.

Cross-references · 17

• Deut 32:17They sacrificed to demons, not God, to gods that they didn’t know, to new gods that came up recently, which your fathers didn’t dread.
• Isa 2:2It shall happen in the latter days, that the mountain of Yahweh’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it.
• Isa 1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
• 1 Cor 10:20–21But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don’t desire that you would have fellowship with demons.
• Isa 56:7I will bring these to my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar; for my house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples.”
• Isa 57:5–10you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
• Jer 17:13Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you shall be disappointed. Those who depart from me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.
• Ps 132:13For Yahweh has chosen Zion. He has desired it for his habitation.
• Jer 2:28“But where are your gods that you have made for yourselves? Let them arise, if they can save you in the time of your trouble: for you have as many gods as you have towns, O Judah.
• Deut 29:24–25even all the nations will say, “Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? What does the heat of this great anger mean?”
• Isa 65:25The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox. Dust will be the serpent’s food. They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain,” says Yahweh.
• Isa 57:13When you cry, let those whom you have gathered deliver you; but the wind will take them. a breath will carry them all away: but he who takes refuge in me will possess the land, and will inherit my holy mountain.”
• Ezek 23:41–42and sat on a stately bed, with a table prepared before it, whereupon you set my incense and my oil.
• 1 Chr 28:9You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
• Heb 12:22But you have come to Mount Zion, and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable multitudes of angels,
• Isa 11:9They will not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
• Rev 21:2–3I saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared like a bride adorned for her husband.

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