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Illicit garden offerings continue while a poor neighbor is turned away.
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Isaiah 65:3-7

Incense and arrogant exclusion

Invitation, Judgment, and New Creation · Isaiah 65

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3the people who continually provoke me to my face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on the bricks.

4who sit among the graves and spend the night in hidden places, who eat pig's flesh, and broth of unclean things is in their vessels;

5who say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nostrils, a fire burning all day long.

6Look, it is written before me: I will not keep silent, but I will repay; indeed, I will repay into their lap.

7your iniquities and the iniquities of your fathers together, says Yahweh, because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; so I will measure their former deed into their lap.

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