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
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