Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Isaiah 66:4
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4. delusions — ( :- ), answering to "their own ways" ( :- ; so Proverbs 1:31 ). However, the Hebrew means rather "vexations," "calamities," which also the parallelism to "fears" requires; "choose their calamities" means, "choose the calamities which they thought to escape by their own ways." their fears —the things they feared, to avert which their idolatrous "abominations" ( Isaiah 66:3 ) were practised. I called . . . none . . . answer —(See on Isaiah 66:6 ; Isaiah 66:6 ; Isaiah 66:6- : ). did . . . chose —not only did the evil deed, but did it deliberately as a matter of choice ( Romans 1:32 ). " They chose that in which I delighted not"; therefore, " I will choose" that in which they delight not, the "calamities" and "fears" which they were most anxious to avert. before mine eyes —(See on Isaiah 66:6 ). return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-5" class="com-number"
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