The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 65:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

I have spread out my hands. Not exactly in prayer, but in expostulation (comp. Proverbs 1:24, "I have stretched out my hand," where the verb in the Hebrew is the same). All the day; or, all day long, as in Romans 10:21; i.

e. continually, day after day, for years—nay, for centuries. A rebellions people (comp. Isaiah 30:1; and see also Isaiah 1:4, Isaiah 1:23; Hosea 4:16; Jeremiah 5:23; Jeremiah 6:28). The "rebellions people" ('am sorer) is undoubtedly Israel.

In a way that was not good; rather, in the way that is not good; i.e. the "way of sinners" (Psalms 1:1)—the "way that leadeth to destruction" (Matthew 7:13).

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