But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
Parallel translations
- WEB But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
- KJV But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
- NKJV But to Israel he says: “All day long I have stretched out My hands To a disobedient and contrary people.”
- NASB But as for Israel, He says, “I have spread out My hands all day long to a disobedient and obstinate people.”
- NLT But regarding Israel, God said, “All day long I opened my arms to them, but they were disobedient and rebellious.”
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Concerning Israel, God says he held out his hands all day long to a disobedient and contrary people. Their unbelief is willful resistance to God's patient appeal.
Overview
Paul completes the contrast by quoting Isaiah 65:2: while God was found by Gentiles, he persistently extended his hands to Israel, who remained disobedient and obstinate. The image of outstretched hands portrays God's patient, pleading love met by stubborn rejection. This closes chapter 10 by placing the blame for Israel's unbelief on their own hardness, not on any failure of God, whose mercy remains open.
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- Isa 65:2–5All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- 1 Pet 2:8and, “A stone of stumbling and a rock of offense.” They stumble because they disobey the word—and to this they were appointed.
- Matt 21:33–43Listen to another parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a tower. Then he rented it out to some tenants and went away on a journey.
- Prov 1:24Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
- Neh 9:26But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.
- Jer 35:15Again and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- Deut 31:27For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the LORD while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!
- Matt 22:3–7He sent his servants to call those he had invited to the banquet, but they refused to come.
- Acts 7:51–52You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- Deut 9:13The LORD also said to me, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
- Jer 25:4And the LORD has sent all His servants the prophets to you again and again, but you have not listened or inclined your ear to hear.
- Acts 13:46–47Then Paul and Barnabas answered them boldly: “It was necessary to speak the word of God to you first. But since you reject it and do not consider yourselves worthy of eternal life, we now turn to the Gentiles.
- 1 Th 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
- Jer 44:4–6Yet I sent you all My servants the prophets again and again, saying: ‘Do not do this detestable thing that I hate.’
- 1 Sam 8:7–8And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
- Matt 20:1–15“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
- Luke 24:47and in His name repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed to all nations, beginning in Jerusalem.
- Matt 23:34–37Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute in town after town.
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