Isaiah 65:7

God will repay both their sins and their fathers' idolatry committed on the mountains and hills. It matters because it shows the accumulated guilt of persistent, generational sin.

Cross-references · 21

• Ezek 20:27–28Therefore, son of man, speak unto the house of Israel, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Yet in this your fathers have blasphemed me, in that they have committed a trespass against me.
• Isa 57:7Upon a lofty and high mountain hast thou set thy bed: even thither wentest thou up to offer sacrifice.
• Exod 20:5Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
• Isa 22:14And it was revealed in mine ears by the LORD of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord GOD of hosts.
• Isa 65:6Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will recompense, even recompense into their bosom,
• Jer 13:25This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
• Jer 5:9Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
• Lev 26:39And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.
• Ps 106:6–7We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
• Jer 5:29Shall I not visit for these things? saith the LORD: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
• Jer 7:19–20Do they provoke me to anger? saith the LORD: do they not provoke themselves to the confusion of their own faces?
• Matt 23:31–36Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
• 2 Kgs 16:4And he sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places, and on the hills, and under every green tree.
• 2 Kgs 14:4Howbeit the high places were not taken away: as yet the people did sacrifice and burnt incense on the high places.
• 2 Kgs 15:35Howbeit the high places were not removed: the people sacrificed and burned incense still in the high places. He built the higher gate of the house of the LORD.
• 2 Kgs 12:3But the high places were not taken away: the people still sacrificed and burnt incense in the high places.
• 1 Kgs 22:43And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the LORD: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.
• Dan 9:8O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face, to our kings, to our princes, and to our fathers, because we have sinned against thee.
• Ezek 18:6And hath not eaten upon the mountains, neither hath lifted up his eyes to the idols of the house of Israel, neither hath defiled his neighbour’s wife, neither hath come near to a menstruous woman,
• 1 Th 2:16Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
• Num 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.

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