Isaiah 66:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.

Isaiah 66:2 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Isaiah 57:15
For thus saith the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity, whose name is Holy; I dwell in the high and holy place, with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, to revive the spirit of the humble, and to revive the heart of the contrite ones.
Psalms 34:18
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.
Psalms 51:17
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Matthew 5:3-4
Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. …
2 Chronicles 34:27-28
Because thine heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and humbledst thyself before me, and didst rend thy clothes, and weep before me; I have even heard thee also, saith the LORD. …

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Atheism Attributes of God Fasting Gentleness God Guidance Homage Humiliation and Self-Affliction

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Here, I. The temple is slighted in comparison with a gracious soul, Isa. 66:1, 2. The Jews in the prophet’s time, and afterwards in Christ’s time, gloried much in the temple and promised themselves great things from it; to humble them therefore, and to shake their vain confidence, both the prophets and Christ foretold the ruin of the temple, that God would leave it and then it would soon be desola…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

2. have been--namely, made by Me. Or, absolutely, were things made; and therefore belong to Me, the Creator [Jerome]. look--have regard. poor--humble (Is 57:15). trembleth at ... word--(2Ki 22:11, 19; Ezr 9:4). The spiritual temple of the heart, though not superseding the outward place of worship, is God’s favorite dwelling (Joh 14:23). In the final state in heaven there shall be “no temple,” but…