Translations
Modern
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Traditional
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.
Literal
And day by day they seek Me, and they delight to know My ways, like a nation that does righteousness, and the justice of their God they do not forsake! They ask me for judgments of righteousness; in the nearness of God they delight:
Latin
Me etenim de die in diem quærunt, et scire vias meas volunt, quasi gens quæ justitiam fecerit, et judicium Dei sui non dereliquerit. Rogant me judicia justitiæ; appropinquare Deo volunt.
Original
Hebrew
English
For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Notes
they seek me: They may have been truly committed to a religious form, but they failed to truly meet God in their religious activities.
This is a charge against religious Israelites who were pleased with themselves because of their religious activities.
Theme notes and profiles
Isaiah God’s Servant Religious Hypocrisy Salvation in Isaiah
Events
- Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC
Glossary
Fast, Fasting Isaiah, Book of Jubilee Year New Creation, New Creature
Topics
Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God Delighting in God: Hypocrites: Pretend To Hypocrisy: General Scriptures Concerning Hypocrites: Apparently Zealous in the Things of God Seeking God: The Wicked: Sometimes Pretend To The Affections of the Wicked, not Sincerely Set on God