Matthew Poole and continuators on Isaiah 65:7

7 Your iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together (saith the Lord) which have burnt incense upon the mountains , and blasphemed me upon the hills : therefore will I measure their former work into their bosom .

Yea, and when I reckon with them, I will punish them, not onely for their personal sins, but for the sins of their Parents, which they have testified their approbation of, by continuing in them, and so made them their own, by an apish sinful imitation.

Their Fathers burnt Incense upon the mountains, there performing to Idols that homage which I obliged them to pay unto me, or if any of them pretend it was to me, though before an Image, yet it was in a way which I directed them not, who had appointed them the place where I would be worshipped.

So as that instead of blessing, they indeed blasphemed me upon the hills, instead of speaking well they spake ill of my name, worshipping me in a way which I had not appointed, and for which they onely took their copy from Idolaters.

Therefore I will punish them, and that justly, as he that rendereth another his due by measure, giving measure for measure, and weight for weight, only they must expect that I should not onely punish the late sins that they have committed of this nature, but the for[illegible: 1+ letters]er sins of this kind which those in this nation, that went before this present Generation did commit, and the presentage hath continued in the guilt of.