Isa 65:6-7 | JFB | e4.org | 6. written before me —"it is decreed by Me," namely, what follows ( ), [MAURER ]; or, their guilt is recorded before Me (compare ). into . . . bosom — ( ). The Orientals used the loose fold of the garment falling on "the bosom" or lap, as a receptacle for carrying things. The sense thus is: I will repay their sin so abundantly that the hand will not be able to receive it; it will need the spacious fold on the bosom to contain it [ROSENMULLER ]. Rather it is, "I will repay it to the very person from whom it has emanated. " Compare "God did render the evil of the men of Shechem upon their heads" ( ) [GESENIUS ].

‏ Isaiah 65:6-7

6. written before me—"it is decreed by Me," namely, what follows (Job 13:26), [MAURER]; or, their guilt is recorded before Me (compare Da 7:10; Re 20:12; Mal 3:16).

into . . . bosom— (Ps 79:12; Jer 32:18; Lu 6:38). The Orientals used the loose fold of the garment falling on "the bosom" or lap, as a receptacle for carrying things. The sense thus is: I will repay their sin so abundantly that the hand will not be able to receive it; it will need the spacious fold on the bosom to contain it [ROSENMULLER]. Rather it is, "I will repay it to the very person from whom it has emanated." Compare "God did render the evil of the men of Shechem upon their heads" (Jud 9:57; Ps 7:16) [GESENIUS].

7. Their sin had been accumulating from age to age until God at last repaid it in full.

mountains— (Isa 57:7; Eze 18:6; 20:27, 28; Ho 4:13).

their—"Your" had preceded. From speaking to, He speaks of them; this implies growing alienation from them and greater distance.

work—the full recompense of their work (so Isa 49:4).