But as to Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”
Parallel translations
- KJV But to Israel he saith, All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying 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 day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
- 1 Pet 2:8and, “a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.
- Matt 21:33–43“Hear another parable. There was a man who was a master of a household, who planted a vineyard, set a hedge about it, dug a wine press in it, built a tower, leased it out to farmers, and went into another country.
- Prov 1:24Because I have called, and you have refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no one has paid attention;
- Neh 9:26“Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, cast your law behind their back, killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.
- Jer 35:15I have sent also to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, ‘Return now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and don’t go after other gods to serve them, and you will dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers:’ but you have not inclined your ear, nor listened to me.
- Deut 31:27For I know your rebellion, and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against Yahweh. How much more after my death?
- Matt 22:3–7and sent out his servants to call those who were invited to the marriage feast, but they would not come.
- Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- Deut 9:13Furthermore Yahweh spoke to me, saying, “I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
- Jer 25:4Yahweh has sent to you all his servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them (but you have not listened, nor inclined your ear to hear)
- Acts 13:46–47Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly, and said, “It was necessary that God’s word should be spoken to you first. Since indeed you thrust it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, behold, we turn to the Gentiles.
- 1 Th 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
- Jer 44:4–6However I sent to you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, “Oh, don’t do this abominable thing that I hate.”
- 1 Sam 8:7–8Yahweh said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me as the king over them.
- Matt 20:1–15“For the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who was the master of a household, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
- Luke 24:47and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name to all the nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
- Matt 23:34–37Therefore behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;
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