Isaiah 65:2 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

I have spread out my hands... — Here, of course, the words were meant for Israel, as St. Paul applies them. It may not be without interest to note the fact that the words stand over the portal of the Church of Santa Maria, which stands at the entrance of the Ghetto at Rome. Of how many churches at Rome and elsewhere might it not be said, “Thou art the man,” “The beam is in thine own eye”?

Isaiah 65:2

2 I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;