Ecclesiasticus 66:4

Clementine Latin Vulgate

Unde et ego eligam illusiones eorum, et quæ timebant adducam eis ; quia vocavi, et non erat qui responderet ; locutus sum, et non audierunt ; feceruntque malum in oculis meis et quæ nolui elegerunt.

Parallel Translations

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Unde et ego eligam illusiones eorum,
et qu� timebant adducam eis;
quia vocavi, et non erat qui responderet;
locutus sum, et non audierunt;
feceruntque malum in oculis meis,
et qu� nolui elegerunt.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
sic ego eligam malam sortem eorum et, quae timebant, adducam eis; quia vocavi, et non erat qui responderet, locutus sum, et non audierunt feceruntque malum in oculis meis et, quod displicet mihi, elegerunt".

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

will choose: 1 Kings 22:19-23, Psalms 81:12, Proverbs 1:31, Proverbs 1:32, Matthew 24:24, 2 Thessalonians 2:10-12

delusions: or, devices

will bring: Proverbs 10:24

when I called: Isaiah 50:2, Isaiah 65:12, Proverbs 1:24, Jeremiah 7:13, Matthew 22:2-7

they did: Isaiah 65:3, 2 Kings 21:2, 2 Kings 21:6

Reciprocal: Judges 17:13 - General 1 Samuel 8:7 - Hearken Isaiah 57:12 - General Jeremiah 35:17 - because Ezekiel 11:8 - General Ezekiel 14:4 - I the Lord Ezekiel 14:9 - if the Ezekiel 20:25 - I gave Zechariah 13:8 - two Acts 7:42 - and gave Acts 28:26 - Hearing 2 Thessalonians 2:11 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

I also will choose their delusions,.... Suffer them to approve and make choice of such persons that should delude and deceive them; as the Scribes and Pharisees, who were wolves in sheep's clothing, and through their appearance of sanctity deceived many, and by their long prayers devoured widows' houses; and as these false prophets, so likewise false Christs, many of which arose after the true Messiah was come, and was rejected by them, whom they embraced, and, by whom they were deluded and ruined, Matthew 7:15

and will bring their fears upon them; the things they feared; such as the sword, famine, and pestilence; and especially the Romans, who, they feared, would come and take away their place and nation, John 11:48:

because, when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear; that is, when Christ called unto the Jews, in the external ministry of the word, to come and hear him, they refused to come, nor would they suffer others to answer to this call, and hear him, and attend on his ministry; which rejection of him and his Gospel was the cause of their ruin:

but they did evil before mine eyes; openly and publicly to his face; blasphemed and contradicted his word, and despised his ordinances: and chose that in which I delighted not; their oral law, their legal sacrifices, and their own self-righteousness, as well as their immoralities.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I also will choose their delusions - Margin, ‘Devices.’ The Hebrew word rendered here ‘delusions’ and ‘devices’ (תעלוּלים ta‛ălûlı̂ym) properly denotes petulance, sauciness; and then vexation, adverse destiny, from עלל ‛âlal, to do, to accomplish, to do evil, to maltreat. It is not used in the sense of delusions, or devices; and evidently here means the same as calamity or punishment. Compare the Hebrew in Lamentations 1:22. Lowth and Noyes render it, Calamities; though Jerome and the Septuagint understand it in the sense of illusions or delusions; the former rendering it, ‘Illusiones, and the latter ἐμπαίγματα empaigmata - ‘delusions.’ The parallelism requires us to understand it of calamity, or something answering to ‘fear,’ or that which was dreaded; and the sense undoubtedly is, that God would choose out for them the kind of punishment which would be expressive of his sense of the evil of their conduct.

And will bring their fears upon them - That is, the punishment which they have so much dreaded, or which they had so much reason to apprehend.

Because when I called - (See the notes at Isaiah 65:12).

But they did evil before mine eyes - (See the notes at Isaiah 65:3).