But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.
Parallel translations
- WEB But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
- BSB But as for Israel he says: “All day long I have held out My hands to a disobedient and obstinate 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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Quick answer
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 65:2–5I 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;
- 1 Pet 2:8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.
- Matt 21:33–43Hear another parable: There was a certain householder, which planted a vineyard, and hedged it round about, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into a far country:
- Prov 1:24Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded;
- Neh 9:26Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
- Jer 35:15I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.
- Deut 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
- Matt 22:3–7And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.
- Acts 7:51–52Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- Deut 9:13Furthermore the LORD spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Jer 25:4And the LORD hath sent unto you all his servants the prophets, rising early and sending them; but ye have not hearkened, nor inclined your ear to hear.
- Acts 13:46–47Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.
- 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.
- Jer 44:4–6Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending them, saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.
- 1 Sam 8:7–8And the LORD said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them.
- Matt 20:1–15For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.
- Luke 24:47And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
- Matt 23:34–37Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
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