Isaiah 65:4
New International Version
who sit among the graves and spend their nights keeping secret vigil; who eat the flesh of pigs, and whose pots hold broth of impure meat;

New Living Translation
At night they go out among the graves, worshiping the dead. They eat the flesh of pigs and make stews with other forbidden foods.

English Standard Version
who sit in tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pig’s flesh, and broth of tainted meat is in their vessels;

Berean Standard Bible
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

King James Bible
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

New King James Version
Who sit among the graves, And spend the night in the tombs; Who eat swine’s flesh, And the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

New American Standard Bible
Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places; Who eat pig’s flesh, And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

NASB 1995
Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places; Who eat swine’s flesh, And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

NASB 1977
Who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; Who eat swine’s flesh, And the broth of unclean meat is in their pots.

Legacy Standard Bible
Who sit among graves and spend the night in secret places, Who eat swine’s flesh, And the broth of offensive meat is in their pots,

Amplified Bible
Who sit among the graves [trying to conjure up evil spirits] and spend the night in the secret places [where spirits are thought to dwell]; Who eat swine’s flesh, And their pots hold the broth of unclean meat;

Christian Standard Bible
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs, and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs, and putting polluted broth in their bowls.

American Standard Version
that sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; that eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they sit in graves and lodge in caves and eat meat of pigs and they pollute their garments with corpses to violate the Law, and to defile the holy covenant that they would anger LORD JEHOVAH

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They lie down to sleep in the tombs and in the caves for the sake of dreams, even they that eat swine's flesh, and the broth of their sacrifices: all their vessels are defiled:

Contemporary English Version
They spend their nights hiding in burial caves; they eat the meat of pigs, cooked in sauces made of stuff unfit to eat.

Douay-Rheims Bible
That dwell in sepulchres, and sleep in the temple of idols: that eat swine's flesh, and profane broth is in their vessels.

English Revised Version
which sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They sat among the graves and spent their nights in caves. They ate pork and in their pots made broth from unclean foods.

Good News Translation
At night they go to caves and tombs to consult the spirits of the dead. They eat pork and drink broth made from meat offered in pagan sacrifices.

International Standard Version
who sit among graves, and spend the night in secret places; who eat pigs' meat, with the broth of detestable things in their pots;

JPS Tanakh 1917
That sit among the graves, And lodge in the vaults; That eat swine's flesh, And broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Literal Standard Version
Who are dwelling among tombs, | And lodge in reserved places, | Who are eating flesh of the sow, | And a piece of abominations—their vessels.

Majority Standard Bible
sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls.

New American Bible
Sitting in tombs and spending the night in caves, Eating the flesh of pigs, with broth of unclean meat in their dishes;

NET Bible
They sit among the tombs and keep watch all night long. They eat pork, and broth from unclean sacrificial meat is in their pans.

New Revised Standard Version
who sit inside tombs, and spend the night in secret places; who eat swine’s flesh, with broth of abominable things in their vessels;

New Heart English Bible
who sit among the graves, and lodge in the secret places; who eat pig's flesh, and the broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Webster's Bible Translation
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

World English Bible
who sit among the graves, and spend nights in secret places; who eat pig’s meat, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Young's Literal Translation
Who are dwelling among sepulchres, And lodge in reserved places, Who are eating flesh of the sow, And a piece of abominable things -- their vessels.

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Context
Judgments and Promises
3to a people who continually provoke Me to My face, sacrificing in the gardens and burning incense on altars of brick, 4sitting among the graves, spending nights in secret places, eating the meat of pigs and polluted broth from their bowls. 5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.…

Cross References
Leviticus 11:7
And the pig, though it has a split hoof completely divided, does not chew the cud; it is unclean for you.

Isaiah 66:3
Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog's neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig's blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one who blesses an idol. Indeed, they have chosen their own ways and delighted in their abominations.

Isaiah 66:17
"Those who consecrate and purify themselves to enter the groves--to follow one in the center of those who eat the flesh of swine and vermin and rats--will perish together," declares the LORD.

Ezekiel 4:14
"Ah, Lord GOD," I said, "I have never defiled myself. From my youth until now I have not eaten anything found dead or mauled by wild beasts. No unclean meat has ever entered my mouth."


Treasury of Scripture

Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

remain

Numbers 19:11,16-20
He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days…

Deuteronomy 18:11
Or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer.

Matthew 8:28
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.

which eat

Isaiah 66:3,17
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations…

Leviticus 11:7
And the swine, though he divide the hoof, and be clovenfooted, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you.

Deuteronomy 14:8
And the swine, because it divideth the hoof, yet cheweth not the cud, it is unclean unto you: ye shall not eat of their flesh, nor touch their dead carcase.

broth, or, pieces

Exodus 23:19
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Exodus 34:26
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring unto the house of the LORD thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 14:3,21
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing…

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Isaiah 65
1. The calling of the Gentiles,
2. and the rejection of the Jews, for their incredulity, idolatry, and hypocrisy
8. A remnant shall be saved
11. Judgments on the wicked, and blessings on the godly
17. The blessed state of the new Jerusalem














(4) Which remain among the graves.--Probably the rock graves of Palestine, which, although they were ceremonially unclean, were not unfrequently used as dwellings (Matthew 8:28; Mark 5:3). The charge may be one merely of neglecting the precepts of the Law, but possibly also may imply that the graves were frequented, as in Isaiah 8:19; Isaiah 29:4, for necromantic purposes.

Lodge in the monuments . . .--Here, again, the words probably point to practices more or less idolatrous, and common among the heathen of the time. Jerome (in loc.) notes the fact that men went to sleep in the crypts of the Temple of 'sculapius, in the hope of gaining visions of the future, and translates in delubris idolorum.

Which eat swine's flesh.--The flesh of swine was apparently forbidden, not on sanitary grounds only or chiefly, but because that animal was sacrificed in the festivals of Thammuz (Ezekiel 8:14), or Adonis. (Comp. Isaiah 66:17.) It may be noted, as against the view that the verse points to the practices of the Babylonian exiles, that no reference to swine has been found in any cuneiform inscriptions. In Egypt, as in Palestine, it was looked upon as unclean (Herod. ii. 47, 48). On the worship of Thammuz, see an article by the Rev. A. H. Sayce, in the Contemporary Review for September, 1883. . . .

Verse 4. - Which remain among the graves. The rock tombs of Palestine seem to be meant. Persons "remained among" these, in spite of the ceremonial defilement thereby incurred, either with the object of raising the dead, and obtaining prophecies from them, or of getting prophetic intimations made to them in dreams (see Jerome's 'Comment.,' ad loc.). And lodge in the monuments; or, in the crypts. "N'tsurim may refer to the mysteries celebrated in natural caves and artificial crypts" (Delitzsch). An account of such mysteries is given by Chwolsohn in his' Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus,' vol. it. pp. 332, et seq. Which eat swine's flesh. Not in mere defiance of the Law, but in sacrificial meals (Isaiah 66:17) of which swine's flesh formed a part. Swine were sacrificial animals in Egypt (Herod., 2:47, 48), in Phoenicia (Lucian, 'De Dea Syra,' § 54), and with the Greeks and Romans. They do not appear to have been employed for the purpose either by the Assyrians or the Babylonians. It was probably in Palestine that the Jews had eaten "swine's flesh," at sacrifices to Baal or Astarte (Ashtoreth). In later times to do so was regarded as one of the worst abominations (1 Macc. 1:41-64; 2 Macc, 6. and 7.). Broth of abominable things. Either broth made from swine's flesh, or from the flesh of other unclean animals, as the hare and rabbit (Leviticus 11:5, 6), or perhaps simply broth made from the flesh of any animals that had been offered to idols (Acts 15:29).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
sitting
הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ (hay·yō·šə·ḇîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 3427: To sit down, to dwell, to remain, to settle, to marry

among the graves,
בַּקְּבָרִ֔ים (baq·qə·ḇā·rîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6913: A grave, sepulcher

spending nights
יָלִ֑ינוּ (yā·lî·nū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 3885: To stop, to stay permanently, to be obstinate

in secret places,
וּבַנְּצוּרִ֖ים (ū·ḇan·nə·ṣū·rîm)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Verb - Qal - QalPassParticiple - masculine plural
Strong's 5341: To watch, guard, keep

eating
הָאֹֽכְלִים֙ (hā·’ō·ḵə·lîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's 398: To eat

the meat
בְּשַׂ֣ר (bə·śar)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 1320: Flesh, body, person, the pudenda of a, man

of pigs
הַחֲזִ֔יר (ha·ḥă·zîr)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2386: Swine, boar

and polluted broth
פִּגֻּלִ֖ים (pig·gu·lîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6292: Foul thing, refuse

from their bowls.
כְּלֵיהֶֽם׃ (kə·lê·hem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | third person masculine plural
Strong's 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus


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